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| Irish name | Seósamh Ó Cunin | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Born | 4/12/1971 Tulsk, County Roscommon Ireland |
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| Years | Club | ||
| Tulsk GAA Australasian GAA Dublin Demons |
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Joe Cunnane is a former Gaelic footballer and Australian rules footballer who represented Ireland at the Australian Football International Cup and also appeared on two Irish football reality television shows.
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The Dublin Demons clubman was the ruckman on the Ireland national Australian rules football team which won the 2002 Australian Football International Cup. Cunnane was one of Ireland's best on ground in the final against Papua New Guinea.[1] He was top scorer when Ireland won the 2001 Atlantic Alliance Cup, playing at Full-forward.[2] and again operated in the Forward line in the 2008 Australian Football International Cup, reaching the semi finals. Big Joe returned with the team for a third time to help them reclaim the 2011 Australian Football International Cup title.[3][4]
The Tulsk GAA clubman has also represented Victoria in the Australasian GAA Championships. He is the teams TV Star having appeared in both RTE’s ‘The Craic Down Under’ and was selected on TG4’s ‘The Underdogs’ team that narrowly lost to Dublin GAA in 2003.[5][6][7][8][9]