Joe McDonagh

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Joe McDonagh
Personal information
Irish name	Seosamh Mac Donnchadha
Sport	Hurling
Position	Half-back
Born	Ballinderreen, County Galway
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Ballinderreen
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1970s-1980s	Galway
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	0
All Irelands	1
NHL	1
All Stars	1

Joe McDonagh (born 1953^[1] in Ballinderreen, County Galway) is a former Irish sportsman and former President of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He played hurling with his local club Ballinderren and with the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s.

During his presidency, he'd set in motion the removal of the ban on security forces, all football games to be played in one calendar year and a minimum of two championship games for every inter-county team, even if it took until Seán McCague's term for them to be realised.^[1] In 2009 he was named in the Sunday Tribune's list of the 125 Most Influential People In GAA History.^[1]

A singer of considerable talent, he memorably sang "The West's Awake" from the Hogan Stand after Galway's All-Ireland Hurling victory in 1980 and he has appeared in Taibhdhearc Na Gaillimhe (Ireland's National Irish language theatre) productions.

Is ball ghníomhach é ar Coiste Náisiúnta an Oireachtais.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 McEvoy, Enda; Kieran Shannon, Dave Hannigan (and PJ Cunningham, Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent) (4 January 2009). "125 Most Influential People In GAA History". Sunday Tribune. Retrieved 28 January 2009. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

Sporting positions
Preceded by	Galway Senior Hurling Captain 1979	Succeeded by Joe Connolly
Preceded by Jack Boothman	President of the Gaelic Athletic Association 1997-2000	Succeeded by Seán McCague

v t e Galway – 1979 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up

1 S. Shinnors 2 N. McInerney 3 C. Hayes 4 A. Fenton 5 J. McDonagh (c) 6 S. Silke 7 I. Clarke 8 John Connolly 9 S. Mahon 10 B. Forde 11 F. Burke 12 Joe Connolly 13 P. J. Molloy 14 N. Lane 15 F. Gantley Subs used S. Linnane for B. Forde M. Whelan for F. Burke Manager M. Keating

v t e 1976 All-Star Hurling Team

1 N. Skehan 2 P. Larkin 3 W. Murphy 4 J. McMahon 5 J. McDonagh 6 M. Jacob 7 D. Coughlan 8 F. Burke 9 P. Moylan 10 M. Malone 11 M. Quigley 12 J. Barry-Murphy 13 M. Brennan 14 T. Doran 15 S. O'Leary

Persondata
Name	McDonagh, Joe
Alternative names
Short description	Irish hurler
Date of birth	1953
Place of birth	Ballinderreen
Date of death
Place of death

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