Cyril Freaney

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Cyril Freaney
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Sport Gaelic football
Position Corner-forward
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Dublin

Cyril Freaney was a Gaelic footballer who played for Dublin.

Gaelic football Irish team sport, form of football derived from traditional Irish ball games

Gaelic football, commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) above the ground.

Dublin GAA Irish Gaelic football team

The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the Dublin Region and the Dublin inter-county teams. The team and its fans are known as "The Dubs" or "Boys in Blue". The fans have a special affiliation with the Hill 16 end of Croke Park

He played as corner-forward in the 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. [1]

1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 68th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. A then record crowd attended. The game went down in history as "famous" and a "classic". The team's relationship with the Hill 16 terrace has been traced to this day. It also marked the arrival of an indigenous Dublin team onto the national stage; previous Dublin teams had hired countrymen to fill their ranks.

Freaney later recounted his memories of the game. He said that on the morning the Dublin team gathered in Barry's Hotel to dine on scrambled egg, that this was the occasion when the Dublin team first wore blue socks and that the players were permitted to keep the jerseys they wore during the game. [1]

Scrambled eggs dish

Scrambled eggs is a dish made from eggs stirred or beaten together in a pan while being gently heated, typically with salt, butter and sometimes other ingredients.

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References

  1. 1 2 Keys, Colm (31 August 2019). "When Kerry put a spanner in the Dublin 'machine': The 1955 All-Ireland pitted a revolutionary Dubs outfit against old-style Kerry values". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . Retrieved 31 August 2019.