Andy Whelan

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Andy Whelan
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Goalkeeper
Born Laois, Ireland
Club(s)
YearsClub
?
Jamestown
Club titles
Leinster titles ?
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1940's
Laois
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 1
All Stars 0

Andy Whelan was a footballer from County Laois.

He was a native of the Kildare border village of Jamestown, near Ballybrittas.

He played as goalkeeper when Laois won the Leinster Senior Football Championship final against Kildare in 1946. [1]

Laois didn't win the Leinster Senior Football Championship again until 2003 when Mick O'Dwyer led them to victory and another Ballybrittas native, Fergal Byron was goalkeeper.

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References

  1. "Leinster Senior Football Finalists". Leinster GAA (2000). Retrieved on 26 February 2019.

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