Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Donie O'Donovan | |
Irish: | Dónall Ó Donnabháin |
Fullname: | Donie O'Donovan |
Nickname: | Donie |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | St. Nicholas' Glen Rovers |
Clposition: | Forward |
Clcountyf: | 3 |
Clcountyh: | 6 |
Clprovincef: | 1 |
Clprovinceh: | 0 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Right corner-forward |
Icyears: | 1947-1955 |
Icapps(Points): | 15 (5-03) |
Icprovince: | 2 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 1 |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1926 |
Birth Place: | Dillon's Cross, Cork, Ireland |
Death Place: | Wellington Road, Cork, Ireland |
Daniel Joseph O'Donovan (31 January 1926 - 28 May 1999) was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player. He played football with his local club St. Nicholas' and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1948 until 1955.[1] O'Donovan managed Cork to the All-Ireland title in 1973.
Born Daniel Joseph O'Donovan at 150 Old Youghal Road, Dillon's Cross, Cork into a family with strong sporting and Irish republican background. He was a nephew of Cork IRA officer Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and became a carpenter by trade. He married Cork camogie player Sheila Cahill in the 1950s, and they had three sons. The eldest, Diarmuid O'Donovan is Assistant CEO of the Evening Echo and a sports columnist with that newspaper.
1966
1944, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954
1949, 1952
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1966
1966, 1967, 1973, 1974
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