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Title: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: Orior on July 11, 2012, 12:00:58 AM
Can you help me get the names here?

(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1685/43181264.jpg)
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: Mourne Rover on July 11, 2012, 02:39:34 PM
Leo Murphy is probably second on the left in the back row. Dan McCartan and Patsy O'Hagan would have been at the college around the same time, but it is difficult to pick them out.

Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: Orior on July 11, 2012, 04:37:24 PM
Raymond McSherry back row far right.

PT Treacy (played for Fermanagh), back row, third from the right.
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: DownFanatic on July 11, 2012, 05:33:35 PM
If the photo was taken possibly before 1955, the following were on the 1949 McRory Cup winning St Colman's team and some may have possibly still been knocking about a few years later. Probably not though.

The team line-out in 1949 was:

Liam McCorry (Clann Eireann, Lurgan)

Patsy McConville (Derrymacash)

Dan McCartan (Banbridge)

Stephen McKay (Burren/Warrenpoint)

Mick O'Hanlon (Cullyhanna)

Tom McPartlan (Derrymacash)

P. J. McElroy (Liatroim Fontenoys)

Seán Blaney (capt.) (Clann Eireann, Lurgan)

Hugh O'Hare (Dromara)

Arthur O'Hanlon (Whitecross)

Kevin Mussen (Clonduff Shamrocks)

Leo McNeill (Annaclone)

T. J. Maguiness (Roscommon Gaels)

Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: turkey+ham on July 11, 2012, 09:40:42 PM
Dan McCartan fourth from left back row. Is that sean O'Neill further across from that? Sixth from left?
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: Mourne Rover on July 11, 2012, 10:36:13 PM
Sean O'Neill went to the Abbey and the i.d. for Dan McCartan is uncertain
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: 5 Sams on July 11, 2012, 10:53:16 PM
Is that the Deputy First Minister with the ball??? ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: ballela-angel on July 16, 2012, 01:51:48 AM
Fintan Mussen is front row - Third from the Left - He's Kevin Mussen's brother and grandfather of Damien Mc Keown who is on the current Down minor panel and scored the final point in their win aginst Monaghan a few weeks ago
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: Orior on July 21, 2012, 09:51:33 PM
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1685/43181264.jpg)

St Colmans, 1956

Back row, Left to Right:

Ian Walsh, Leo Murphy, ? , Dab McCartan, Eugene Conway, Pat O'Hagan, Fr McArdle, PT Treacy (Garrison, Fermanagh), Tony Williamson, Raymond McSherry (Poyntzpass, Armagh)

Fron row, Left to Right:

James McCartan , Liam Watson (Lurgan, Armagh), Fintan Mussen, Dessie Creery (Lurgan, Armagh), Dominic O'Loan (Glenavy, Antrim), Larry McCartan, Tommy Keenan, ?
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: Tony Baloney on July 21, 2012, 09:58:47 PM
Quote from: 5 Sams on July 11, 2012, 10:53:16 PM
Is that the Deputy First Minister with the ball??? ;) ;) ;) ;)
You left the college by that stage?  ;)
Title: Re: St Colmans College team, circa 1955?
Post by: THE MIGHTY QUINN on October 01, 2012, 06:58:33 PM
Looking at that photo made me think. In the not too distant past there were a lot of lads from South Armagh and Lurgan who made it big with St Colman's. Players like Benny Tierney, Neil Smyth, Jarlath Burns, Diarmuid Marsden to name but a few. I'm out of touch now but have there been any recent additions who have made it big or even have the potential to make it big?