Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Uinseann Ó Luasaigh | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Left corner-forward | ||
Born | 1943 Caragh Lake, County Kerry, Ireland | ||
Died | 25 June 1999 (aged 56) Limerick, Ireland | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
Occupation | Air Corps member | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Glenbeigh-Glencar Laune Rangers Mid Kerry | |||
Club titles | |||
Kerry titles | 1 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
1963-1965 | Kerry | 6 (2-08) | |
Inter-county titles | |||
Munster titles | 1 | ||
All-Irelands | 0 | ||
NFL | 0 |
John Vincent Lucey (1943 - 25 June 1999) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. He played at club level with Glenbeigh-Glencar, Laune Rangers and Mid Kerry and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team.
Born in Caragh Lake, County Kerry, Lucey first played Gaelic football with Glenbeigh-Glencar before later joining the Laune Rangers club. He won a County Championship title with divisional side Mid Kerry in 1967. [1] Lucey was a member of the Kerry team that won the Munster Vocational Schools' Championship in 1959 before later winning a Leinster Championship title with the Dublin minor team in 1961. He subsequently declared for his native county and was part of the Kerry under-21 team that won the inaugural All-Ireland Under-21 Championship title in 1964. [2] Lucey followed his brothers Noel and Jimmy onto the Kerry senior football team and was at right wing-forward for Kerry's 1965 All-Ireland final defeat by Galway., having earlier won a Munster Championship title. [3] [4] [5]
Lucey, like his brothers, joined the Irish Air Corps and was stationed in Baldonnel Aerodrome.<He died after a long period of illness at Milford Hospice in Limerick on 25 June 1999.
Team | Season | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
Kerry | 1962-63 | Division 1 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 1-02 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 1-02 |
1963-64 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | ||
1964-65 | 4 | 0-05 | 2 | 1-06 | 2 | 0-00 | 8 | 1-11 | ||
Career total | 5 | 0-05 | 4 | 2-08 | 2 | 0-00 | 11 | 2-13 |
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