John Joe Cassidy

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John Joe Cassidy
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Defender
Born	County Cavan, Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Arva Cavan GFC (New York)
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
?-1950	Cavan
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles	6
All Irelands	2
NFL	1
All Stars	0

John Joe Cassidy was a Gaelic footballer for Cavan.

Playing career

Cassidy was born and raised in Arva and got a taste of New York when he represented Cavan in the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship against Kerry in the Polo Grounds. He lined out at wing half forward in the 1948 and 1952 victorious finals. In the 1952 All-Ireland title success he scored a goal in the drawn game against Meath. Paul Fitzsimons was introduced as sub for John Joe Cassidy in the replay witch Cavan went on to celebrate a 0-9 to 0-5 win. He also won six Ulster titles and two Railway Cup Medals.^[1]

Cassidy was top scorer in the 1952 Ulster Senior Football Championship, with a total of 1-7.

Later years

Cassidy emigrated to New York along with Owen Roe McGovern in the early 1950s and became an active member of the Cavan GFC of New York as a player, President and Honorary President, until his death in 1995.^[2] John Cassidy has been a successful player in the travel industry and now classic resorts is a well known honeymoon tour operator.

References

Cavan Football Squads

v t e Cavan – 1948 National Football League Champions (1st title)

1 S. Morris 2 W. Doonan 3 B. O'Reilly 4 P. Smith 5 O. R. McGovern 6 J. J. O'Reilly (c) 7 S. Deignan 8 P. J. Duke 9 P. Brady 10 A. Tighe 11 M. Higgins 12 J. J. Cassidy 13 J. Stafford 14 P. Donohoe 15 E. Carolan

v t e Cavan – 1948 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (4th title)

1 D. Benson 2 W. Doonan 3 B. O'Reilly 4 P. Smith 5 P. J. Duke 6 J. J. O'Reilly (c) 7 S. Deignan 8 P. Brady 9 V. Sherlock 10 A. Tighe 11 M. Higgins 12 J. J. Cassidy 13 J. Stafford 14 P. Donohoe 15 E. Carolan Sub O. R. McGovern

v t e Cavan – 1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (5th title)

1 S. Morris 2 J. McCabe 3 P. Brady 4 D. Maguire 5 P. Carolan 6 L. Maguire 7 B. O'Reilly 8 T. Hardy 9 V. Sherlock 10 S. Hetherton 11 M. Higgins 12 E. Carolan 13 J. J. Cassidy 14 A. Tighe 15 J. Cusack

Persondata
Name	Cassidy, John Joe
Alternative names
Short description	Gaelic footballer
Date of birth
Place of birth	County Cavan
Date of death	1995
Place of death

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