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Dave Billings (born 1953) was [1] a selector for the Dublin senior football team. He worked under the management of Paul Caffrey along with his co-selectors Brian Talty and Paul Clarke. Billings was previously a co-selector along with Paul Caffrey and Paddy Canning when Tommy Lyons was manager of the Dublin Gaelic football team between from 2001 to 2004. [2] He is a UCD Commerce graduate and was in charge of all Gaelic games on the UCD campus. [3]
Billings died on 14 April 2015. [4]
Kevin Bernard Moran is an Irish former footballer who excelled at the top levels in two codes: Gaelic and the association brand. In the sport of hurling his earliest appearance in Croke Park saw him and his team mates from CBS James Street lift the Fianna Fail Hurling Cup in 1967/68. Those early days set the seeds for his future success in Gaelic Football on the great Dubs team of the late 70s. Dublin county team, winning two All-Ireland Senior Football Championships with them, and in association football for his career with Blackburn Rovers, Manchester United and Ireland. In 1985 he became the first man to be sent off in an FA Cup Final.
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