Personal information | |||
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Sport | Dual player | ||
Born | County Westmeath | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
The Downs/Clonkill | |||
Club titles | |||
Football | Hurling | ||
Westmeath titles | 1 | 3 | |
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
Westmeath |
Luke Loughlin (born 1994/1995) is a dual player of Gaelic games, who plays football for The Downs, hurling for Clonkill and also plays at senior level for the Westmeath county football team. He has also featured for the New York county football team. [1]
Loughlin is from Mullingar. [2] He was a playing member of the team when Westmeath won the 2019 National Football League Division 3 league title by a goal against Laois at Croke Park. [3]
He has spoken openly about his struggles with addiction. [4] [5] [6] [7]
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27-year-old Luke Loughlin from Mullingar is known for playing with Westmeath, but off the pitch he has struggled with some major personal battles.
Luke Loughlin scored five points for The Downs in the Westmeath SFC Final
Murtagh moved Clonkill two in front early in the resumption and more scores at that same end from Niall Mitchell and dual star Luke Loughlin would outweigh Ciaran Doyle's single, leaving it at 1–9 to 1–6 with 25 minutes to go.
Two points from Murtagh and Luke Loughlin respectively restored Clonkill's advantage, before Ciaran O'Brien scored the opening goal. His ninth minute effort made its way into the net after a pass from Joe Clarke.