Noel Tierney, RIP
Is údar mór brón do CLG na Gaillimhe an scéala go bhfuil ár n-iar imreoir Contae Noel Tierney imithe ar shlí na firínne.
Galway All-Ireland Senior Football Champions 1965
Back row: Séamus Leydon, Noel Tierney, Bosco McDermott, Tom Sands, Seán Meade, Mattie McDonagh, Mick Garrett, Mick Reynolds, Jimmy Glynn, John Keenan.
Front row: Greg Higgins, Martin Newell, John Donnellan, Seán Cleary, Cyril Dunne, Christy Tyrrell, Enda Colleran, Brian Geraghty, Tommy Keenan, Johnny Geraghty, Pat Donnellan.
Noel, a Milltown GAA Clubman won three All-Ireland Senior Football titles in a row with Galway between 1964 and 1966.
At 22, he was named the Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1964, the equivalent of the current All-Stars Footballer of the Year award.
As recent as last week, he attended a function to celebrate his life and distinguished GAA career, joined on the night by 2024 Footballer of the Year, Paul Conroy.
He won an All-Ireland Minor Football title in 1960 and his other honours include five Connacht Football Championships and a National League title with Galway in 1965, plus two Railway Cups with Connacht, including one as captain in 1969.
With his club Milltown he won a Galway Senior Football Championship title in 1971, their first every County Championship win.
On behalf of Galway GAA, we express our deepest sympathies to his wife Peggy, son Martin, daughters Aoife and Mairéad, sisters Bridie, Kathleen, Nora, Teresa and Ann, brother Sean, his grandchildren, in laws and extended family members, on his passing.
He will be sadly missed by his family, friends and the whole Galway GAA community.
Funeral details are as follows: https://rip.ie/death-notice/noel-tierney-galway-milltown-574374
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
Galway’s Noel Tierney who won Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1964 greeted this year’s winner Galway’s Paul Conroy at a function in Milltown, County Galway. They are the only two players from the County to ever receive player of the year awards. Photo Credit: Jacinta Fahy (Tuam).
