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CUP of joy and celebration for Thurles Crokes captain Neil O’Dea after winning the 1960 Tipperary Senior Football Championship final.

MUNSTER Railway Cup football team, 1955. Players at back, from left: Neil O’Dea (Tipperary), Tom Moriarty (Kerry), Tony Newport (Tipperary), Jerome O’Shea (Kerry), Denis Bernard (Cork), Donie Murphy (Kerry), Jim O’Donovan (Cork), Mick Goold (Cork), John Joe Sheehy (Kerry), selector; Jim Barry (Cork), trainer. In front: Phil O’Shea (Tipperary), selector; Tadhgie Lyne (Kerry), Micksie Palmer (Kerry), John Dowling (Kerry), Seán Murphy (Kerry), Neilly Duggan (Cork), Paudie Sheehy (Kerry), Tom Cunningham (Waterford). TIPPERARY AND MUNSTER PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARTIN BOURKE, CLONMORE, CO. TIPPERARY.

IT was a night to remember for Neil O’Dea and his family when Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh made the presentations of the Tipperary Hall of Fame awards known as the Sean Gael (oldgaels) awards, in November 2013 at the Dome, Semple Stadium, Thurles. GAA history was made in Tipperary on Sunday, November 6th 1960 when Thurles Crokes won their first and only County Senior Football Championship title, captained by Neil O’Dea.

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TUAM STARS, Galway SFC winners 1984, Centenary Year of the GAA. At back, from left: Aonghus Murphy (R.I.P.), Joseph Kelly, John Fahy, Ian Doyle, Declan Smyth, John Purcell, Padraic (“Oxy”) Moran, Conor O’Dea. In front: Francis Stockwell, Padraic O’Dea, Jimmy O’Dea, John Tobin, captain; Pat O’Neill, Declan Dunne, Cathal McGinn. PHOTO: RAY RYAN

THURLES CROKES, Tipperary SFC winners 1960. At back, from left: Con Canning (a native of Leitrim), Tim Walsh, Larry Keane, Seán Murphy, Michael Craddock, Gerry Gardiner (a native of Annaghdown, Co. Galway), Pat O’Brien, Owen Durkan (a native of Mayo). In front: Seán McLoughlin, Jimmy Doyle, Paddy Doyle, Michael (“Blackie”) Keane, Neil O’Dea, captain; Maurice Garde, John Corcoran.

IN their 60th year of married life together: Neil and Tilly O’Dea.