Tim Coffey

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Tim Coffey is a former Irish soccer player.

He played for Drumcondra F.C. at club level and was a great favourite with the Drumcondra fans in the 1940s and 1950s.

A wing-half, he won a League of Ireland Championship medal in 1948/9 and a FAI Cup winners medal in 1954.

On 9th October 1949, he won his only senior cap for the Republic of Ireland national football team when he lined out in defence in a 1-1 draw with Finland in a World Cup qualification tie played in Helsinki. Coffey laid on the opening goal for Irish skipper Peter Farrell. He also represented the League of Ireland.