Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin
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Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin is a journalist, author and broadcaster and former Gaelic football
Gaelic football
Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
er and hurler
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
with Dublin
Dublin GAA
Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
and Eoghan Ruadh. He grew up in Fairview
Fairview, Dublin
Fairview is a coastal district on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council. Part of the area forms Fairview Park, on land reclaimed from the sea.-Location and access:...
, County Dublin
County Dublin
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where he attended a Gaelscoil
Gaelscoil
A gaelscoil is an Irish-medium primary school in Ireland, of a sort found outside the traditionally Irish-speaking regions, especially in urban areas....
(Irish
Irish language
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-medium school). He twice won the Feis Ceoil
Feis Ceoil
Feis Ceoil is an annual Irish cultural festival of music and dance. It was first organized in 1897 by Dr. Annie Patterson and Edward Martyn. It consisted of competitions for performance and composition and was supported by all musicians of the day, both national and classical...
competition for his singing talents in the Irish language.
He represented Dublin from 1943 to 1953 in hurling
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
and played in the All-Ireland Final of 1948 scoring a goal and also played in the 1946 National League Final.
Seán had a Sunday night radio programme on Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
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(RTÉ) entitled Gaelic Sports Results, which was the longest running continuously broadcast radio feature in the world. He took over the show in place of his father in 1953 and retired after the broadcast of 8 May 2011, fifty-eight years later. The Gaelic Sports Results programme had a worldwide audience amongst the Irish diaspora
Irish diaspora
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through satellite and web broadcasting. He began his media career with The Evening Press and continued until its closure in 1995.
Books
- His Own Story, Brophy Books, 1988.
- The Birth Of A Building,
- History of Hermitage Golf Club: Celebrating 100 Years (1905 to (2005),
- Tall Tales and Banter, Eason & Son
- My Greatest Sporting Memory, Calmac Publishing, 2000.
- The Dubs, Gill & Macmillan, 2006.
- Giants of Gaelic Football, Gill & Macmillan Ltd (Oct 2007)