Derry Beckett

Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler

Derry Beckett
Personal information
Native name
Doire Beicéid (Irish)
Born(1919-12-24)24 December 1919
DiedAugust 1959(1959-08-00) (aged 39)
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Sport
Football PositionLeft corner-forward
Hurling PositionLeft corner-forward
Club
Years Club
Sarsfields / Glanmire
St Finbarr's
UCC
Club titles
  Football Hurling
Cork titles 0 0
Inter-county
Years County Apps (scores)
1945-1947
1941-1946
Cork (football)
Cork (hurling)
4 (2-10)
5 (6-3)
Inter-county titles
  Football Hurling
Munster Titles 1 1
All-Ireland Titles 1 1
League titles 0 0

Jeremiah Beckett (24 December 1919 – August 1959) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who played left corner-forward for the Cork senior teams.

Beckett joined the hurling team during the 1941 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen in both codes until his retirement after the 1947 football championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and one Munster medal in hurling as well as one All-Ireland medal and one Munster medal in football. Beckett is one of only eighteen dual players to have won All-Ireland medals in both codes.[1]

At club level Beckett played his club hurling and football with a range of clubs including Sarsfields, Glanmire, St Finbarr's and UCC.

References

  1. ^ Breheny, Martin (28 August 2001). "Teddy sounds warning to dual chasing Kerins". Irish Independent. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
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