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- ↑ High Ball magazine, Vol 5 Issue 7 Page 61, August 2002. ISSN 1393-6158
- ↑ "Irish panel players". Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- ↑ "Team Lists". Archived from the original on 30 December 2011.
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