Gabriel Irwin

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Gabriel Irwin
Personal information
Irish name Gaibriél Ó hEireamhóin
Sport Gaelic football
Position Goalkeeper
Born (1965-07-01) 1 July 1965 (age 57) [1]
Glenamoy,
County Mayo, Ireland
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Occupation Sales rep
Club(s)
YearsClub
 Glenamoy
Club titles
Mayo titles 0
Colleges(s)
YearsCollege
 Sligo Regional Technical College
College titles
Sigerson titles 0
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1985-1993
 Mayo
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 5
All-Irelands 0
NFL 0
All Stars 1

Gabriel Irwin (born 1 July 1965) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Glenamoy and was a member of the senior Mayo county team from 1983 until 1990.

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Career

A shortage of underage activity in Glenamoy resulted in Irwin first playing competitive Gaelic football as a schoolboy with Lacken Cross Vocational School. Here he won consecutive Mayo VSSFC titles as well as a Connacht VSSFC title. Irwin also earned inclusion on the Mayo vocational schools' team and won an All-Ireland VSSFC title in 1982. He later won a Freshers' Cup title with Sligo Regional Technical College. [2]

Irwin first appeared for Mayo as a member of the minor team in 1983, after being overlooked the year before. He was also drafted onto the under-21 team that year and won an All-Ireland U21FC medal. [3] Irwin's four-year tenure with the under-21 also resulted in four successive Connacht U21FC medals. He joined the senior team as reserve goalkeeper in 1985. Irwin later made the starting fifteen and was in goal when Mayo suffered a defeat by Cork in the 1989 All-Ireland final. [4] His performances throughout the season earned him an All-Star. [5] Irwin left the inter-county scene in 1993, by which time he had also claimed five Connacht SFC medals. [6]

Honours

Lacken Cross Vocational School
Sligo Regional Technical College
Mayo

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References

  1. ↑ "Player profiles". The Connacht Tribune. 15 September 1989. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Gabriel Irwin". Hogan Stand. 9 April 1993. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Band of Mayo brothers". The Mayo News. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Twenty years on from THAT game". The Mayo News. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Mayo face year without Burke after knee injury". Irish Examiner. 26 June 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Where are they now? Gabriel Irwin (Former Mayo footballer)". Irish Independent. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
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