About Séamus McGuinness
Lived 1930 – 2008 (aged 77–78). Séamus McGuinness was a gaelic football player.
Séamus "Jim" McGuinness (1930 – 6 January 2008) was an Irish Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career at senior level with the Dublin county team spanned eight seasons from 1950 to 1958.
McGuinness made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of nineteen when he was selected for the Dublin junior team. He played one championship season with the junior team, culminating with the winning of a Leinster medal in 1949. McGuinness subsequently joined the Dublin senior team during the 1950–51 league. During his career he won one Leinster medal and one National Football League medal. He retired from inter-county football due to injury in 1958.
He was not fully fit on the day of the 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.
Honours St Maur's Dublin Junior Football Championship (1): 1951
Dublin Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 1955 National Football League (1): 1954–55 Leinster Junior Football Championship (1): 1949
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Who was Séamus McGuinness?
Irish Gaelic footballer
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Séamus McGuinness was born in 1930 in Rush.
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Séamus McGuinness died on 6 January 2008.
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Séamus McGuinness was a gaelic football player.
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