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Shane Dalton

Irish Gaelic footballer and lecturer

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About Shane Dalton

Shane Dalton was a gaelic football player and hurler.

Shane Dalton is a former Dublin hurler and Gaelic footballer who played with St Vincents GAA club and the Dublin senior hurling team. As of 2014, he was a selector for the Dublin senior camogie team.

Career Club A member of St Vincents GAA club, Dalton played with the St Vincents minor hurling team that won the Dublin minor championship in 1982. A dual player, he won senior titles in hurling and football with the club. This team, which included Niall Quinn, won the 1983 Leinster Minor Hurling Championship. and he won Division 2 National League hurling medals with Dublin in 1989 and 1997. He was a member of the Dublin hurling squad during the 1997 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship His last senior game was against Westmeath in 1999.

Dalton also played with the Dublin Senior footballers. In 1991, he was a sub for Dublin in a series of replayed games against Meath in the 1991 Leinster Senior Football Championship.

He was selected to represent Leinster and was on the Leinster team that won the 1988 Railway Cup Hurling Championship.

Management Dalton was the manager of the St Vincents hurling team that won the Dublin Minor Hurling Championship in 2002. In 2011 he managed the senior camogie team in St Vincents. This team went on to win the Division 1 league three times, and were runners up in three championship finals. As of 2014, Dalton was a selector for the Senior Dublin camogie team.

Honours Club (St Vincents) Dublin Senior Football Championship (1984) Dublin Senior Hurling Championship (1988)

Inter-county (Dublin) National Hurling League Division 2 (1989, 1997) Leinster Under-21 Football Championship (1984)

Inter-provincial (Leinster) Railway Cup hurling medal (1988)

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Irish Gaelic footballer and lecturer

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Shane Dalton

· Wikidata: Q21005516

· DBpedia: Shane Dalton

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