Twenty Five Years Ago

1 Cork won the All-Ireland senior football and hurling double. Who captained the footballers?

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2 Offaly won the 1990 Leinster hurling title, who did they beat in the final?

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3 Name the 1990 Ulster football champions?

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4 The Rebels naturally won the Munster football final, hammering Kerry by 15 points. It was a record-breaking win for another reason though – how many Munster titles on the trot did that 1990 success represent?

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5 Who were crowned Connacht senior football champions in 1990? _______________________________

Goals

6 Who scored the only goal from play in the 2015 All-Ireland senior hurling final? _______________________________

7 Joe Canning was the overall top scorer in the 2015 championship, but who scored the most goals? _______________________________

8 What Mayo player scored both of their goals in their drawn and replayed All-Ireland semi-finals against the Dubs? _______________________________

9 Mayo scored six goals against Sligo but that wasn’t the highest team total in a single game in the football championship. What county scored seven? _______________________________

10 Fermanagh’s Sean Quigley was the championship top scorer, but which player scored the most goals in the football championship? _______________________________

Managerial Moves

11 What Cork All-Ireland medal winner joined the Clare senior hurlers backroom setup in October 2015? _______________________________

12 Who is the new Mayo manager? _______________________________

13 Name the former Antrim hurling manager who joined the Limerick senior hurling management in October? _______________________________

14 Who is the new manager of the Cork senior footballers? _______________________________

15 Which former Army man and Mayo footballer is joint manager of the Roscommon footballers? _______________________________

Brian Cody

16 On 12 July next year (2016), which birthday will he celebrate? _______________________________

17 In what year did Brian Cody play his last senior championship match for Kilkenny? _______________________________

18 Name his club? _______________________________

19 What number did Cody have on the back of his jersey for the 1978 All-Ireland hurling final? _______________________________

20 How many All-Star awards did Brian Cody win in his playing career? _______________________________

Jimmy Barry Murphy (JBM)

21 Jimmy Barry Murphy stepped down as Cork manager this autumn. How many senior All-Ireland’s did he win as bainisteoir of the Cork hurlers? _______________________________

22 In what year did Jimmy Barry Murphy play in his first senior All-Ireland final? _______________________________

23 How many Munster senior football medals did dual star JBM win? _______________________________

24 From the start of his playing career, JBM amazingly won Munster senior medals in either hurling or football for seven consecutive years. In what year did that streak finally end? _______________________________

25 Jimmy Barry captained Cork in two All-Ireland senior finals, but lost to the same county on both occasions. Name the county? _______________________________

Mayo’s close calls

26 In the 1989 All-Ireland football final, Mayo lost to Cork by three points, 0-17 to 1-11. Who scored the only goal of the game? _______________________________

27 In the replayed 1996 All-Ireland football final against Meath, Mayo would ultimately lose by a point, 2-9 to 1-11. Name the Mayo substitute goal scorer? _______________________________

28 In 1997 it was Kerry and Maurice Fitzgerald’s turn to deny the westerners, this time 0-13 to 1-7. Who kicked Mayo’s goal from a penalty kick? _______________________________

29 After four minutes of the 2004 final, Mayo stormed into a 1-1 to 0-2 lead against Kerry. They would lose by eight points, 1-20 to 2-9. Who got the first Mayo goal? _______________________________

30 The 2013 final was lost to Dublin, 2-12 to 1-14, who got that Mayo goal, one that brought them level with 20 minutes to go? _______________________________

Off the field

31 Name the former Galway president of the GAA, who also sang The West’s Awake from the steps of the Hogan Stand in 1980? _______________________________

32 Who is the current Uachtarán Cumann Lúthchleas Gael? _______________________________

33 Name the 2015 GAA chairman of the National Referees Committee. _______________________________

34 Name the 31st president of the GAA, the first member of the Church of Ireland to be elected to the post. _______________________________

35 Who is the newly elected president of the Gaelic Players Association, replacing Donal Óg Cusack? _______________________________

What is rare is wonderful

36 Name the Connacht county that won their only National football league title in 1979. _______________________________

37 In 1991, which Leinster county won their only National hurling league title? _______________________________

38 Despite never winning their provincial championship, which Ulster county reached the 2004 All-Ireland football semi-final, losing in a replay to Mayo? _______________________________

39 Antrim’s hurlers reached the All-Ireland hurling final of 1989, losing to Tipperary. Who they did they beat in the All-Ireland semi-final that year? _______________________________

40 In 1986, Westmeath landed their first ever All-Star in either code, with a hurler picked at corner forward on that year’s team. Name the Ringtown player. _______________________________

Famous substitutes

41 Name the Clare man who came off the bench who scored the vital goal in the 1995 All-Ireland hurling final? _______________________________

42 The original supersub, this Kerry forward/midfielder eventually copperfastened a starting place on Mick O’Dwyer’s team. He scored a very controversial goal in the 1976 Munster football final replay against goal, a ball deemed to have crossed the line by umpires. Name him. _______________________________

43 A Galway man with a very useful habit of scoring vital goals in All-Ireland finals, none more crucial that his green flag in the 1988 final against Tipperary. Who is he? _______________________________

44 The most famous substitute of them all, Seamus Darby, struck late to win the 1982 All-Ireland football final. But what number was Darby wearing when he came on the field? _______________________________

45 In the All-Ireland hurling final replay of 2014, with 10 minutes to go, Brian Cody sent on number 22. He wasn’t a bad hurler and it would be his last time in a Kilkenny jersey. Name him. _______________________________

Put in the book:

46 Keith Duggan’s excellent 2007 GAA offering was called House of Pain. Which county was Duggan writing about? _______________________________

47 In 2010, Christy O’Connor delivered the masterpiece, The Club. Which GAA club was the Clare journalist writing about? _______________________________

48 Out of Our Skins was an insightful biography of which Meath footballer? _______________________________

49 Come What May was the title of which Cork player’s autobiography? _______________________________

50 This year’s Setanta Sports Book of the Year in Ireland was Dub Sub Confidential. Who wrote it? _______________________________