Mick Falvey
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Personal information | |||
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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Place of birth | An Daingean, Kerry, Ireland | ||
Club information | |||
Club | Civil Service | ||
Position | Midfield | ||
Club(s)* | |||
Club | Years | Apps (scores) | |
Civil Service | 1940s | ||
Club Titles | |||
Dublin Titles | 1 | ||
Leinster Titles | 0 | ||
Inter County Titles | |||
Leinster Titles | 2 | ||
All-Ireland | 1 | ||
* club appearances and scores |
Mick Falvey is a former all-Ireland winning Gaelic football player with Dublin. Despite being a Kerry native of An Daingean, Falvey won the all-Ireland Senior football championship as a Dublin player in 1942 in a final with Galway. Falvey played with Civil Service in 1944 when they won the Dublin Senior Football Championship and was denied a second title when Civil Service were defeated by Parnells in 1945. Mick attended secondary school at CBS Dingle. Mick Falvey died following a short illness in the Mater Hospital on Wednesday, December 20, 2006.