Noel Tierney

Noel Tierney
Personal information
Irish name	Nollaig Ó Tiarnaigh
Sport	Gaelic Football
Position	Full Back
Born	(1942-02-02) 2 February 1942 Tuam, Ireland
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Occupation	Dairy Farmer
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Garrymore Milltown
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1963-1969	Galway
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	5
All-Irelands	3
NFL	1
All Stars	0

Noel Tierney (born 2 February 1942 in Milltown, County Galway) is an Irish former Gaelic football player and sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Milltown and was a member of the winning Galway senior inter-county 3 in a row team from 1964 until 1966 inclusive, winning three all Ireland Medals.^[1] He was Captain of the Conaught Railway Cup Winning Team of 1969. He was also on the winning all-Ireland minor team of 1960 for Galway.

References

↑ "Galway GAA. profile". www.hoganstand.com. Retrieved 2010-04-09.

Awards
Preceded by Lar Foley (Dublin)	Caltex Footballer of the Year 1965	Succeeded by Martin Newell (Galway)

Galway – 1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 M. Moore 2 E. Colleran 3 N. Tierney 4 S. Meade 5 B. McDermott 6 J. Donnellan 7 M. Newell 8 M. Garrett (c) 9 M. Reynolds 10 C. Dunne 11 M. McDonagh 12 P. Donnellan 13 J. Keenan 14 S. Cleary 15 S. Leydon Sub used B. Geraghty for S. Cleary

Galway – 1964 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (5th title)

1 J. Geraghty 2 E. Colleran 3 N. Tierney 4 B. McDermott 5 J. Donnellan (c) 6 S. Meade 7 M. Newell 8 M. Garrett 9 M. Reynolds 10 C. Dunne 11 M. McDonagh 12 S. Leydon 13 C. Tyrrell 14 S. Cleary 15 J. Keenan

Galway – 1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (6th title)

1 J. Geraghty 2 E. Colleran (c) 3 N. Tierney 4 B. McDermott 5 J. Donnellan 6 S. Meade 7 M. Newell 8 P. Donnellan 9 M. Garrett 10 C. Dunne 11 M. McDonagh 12 S. Leydon 13 C. Tyrrell 14 S. Cleary 15 J. Keenan Sub used M. Reynolds

Galway – 1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (7th title)

1 J. Geraghty 2 E. Colleran (c) 3 N. Tierney 4 B. McDermott 5 C. McDonagh 6 S. Meade 7 M. Newell 8 J. Duggan 9 P. Donnellan 10 C. Dunne 11 M. McDonagh 12 S. Leydon 13 L. Sammon 14 S. Cleary 15 J. Keenan Sub used J. Donnellan for S. Meade

Texaco Footballer of the Year

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