SÉAMUS LEYDON (right) in action during his famous duel with Meath's Pat 'Red' Collier in the 1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final. ONE OF THE GREATSSéamus Leydon’s ‘place in pantheon of great Gaelic footballers secured’GALWAY GAA bid farewell to one of its most successful and best-ever footballers last week with the passing of Séamus Leydon at the age of 81. A native of Dunmore, who in later years lived in Kildare, Leydon is widely regarded as one of the greatest attackers to play the game and in a glittering career between the early 1960s and mid-70s won the sport's biggest honours at club, college and inter-county level. He will be forever remembered as a flying wing-forward on Galway's All-Ireland three in-a-row team of 1964, '65 and'66, and also earned selection on the first-ever All-Star team in '71. His club CV was just as honour-laden with Leydon a key player in Dunmore MacHales' dominance of the Galway Senior Football Championship during the 1960s when capturing five titles.

Source: The Herald November 09, 2023 09:18 UTC