PJ Duke-Cavan Gael

P.J. Duke, a brilliant wing half back

DUKE, P. J. 1925-1950

P. J. Duke was a G.A.A. football mid-fielder and right halfback for County Cavan. He played for Stradone and University Col-lege, Dublin. He won three Sigerson Cup medals, in 194.5, 1949 and 1947, when he was captain. He was a member of the Cavan senior championship side from 1945 and won two All-Ireland Senior Championship medals with Cavan in 1947 and 1948. He won a Railway Cup medal in 1950 for Ul-ster.

read todays indo and John Joe Reilly died age 34......?
sad, what happened these 2 boys?

Rule 4 , some people might query whether being editor of a national paper is neccesarily the result of being intelligent . I know I would , and some of his journalistic attempts would not have put him in the top 125 of journalists .

More recently a huge number of GAA players have increasingly come from the ranks of the university sides , certainly in the North that is where the push from mid eighties onwards came from . We are not talking so**er numpties here , thank goodness --although most of the Irish s*cc*r players are above the "national average " in GB & I terms .