GAA Quiz Book 2: Another 2,000 Gaelic Football and Hurling Questions. Christy O’Connor

hurling title - 1997, 1999 or 2001?

      473 Who captained Derry to the 2002 All-Ireland minor football title?

      474 Name the two football All-Stars who won Ulster hurling titles in 2000 and 2001?

      475 How many Ulster club hurling finals did Lavey contest in the 1990s?

      476 Who captained Derry to the 1997 All-Ireland U-21 title?

      477 Who managed Derry to their first Ulster senior hurling title in 2000?

      478 Name the player who captained his club in Ulster club football and hurling finals in the last ten years?

      479 Name the three players from Derry’s All-Ireland winning senior football team of 1993 that also represented Ulster in Railway Cup hurling?

      480 Name the renowned Derry footballer who captained St Pat’s Maghera to the All-Ireland Colleges title in 1995 and who was also honoured as an Ulster Colleges hurling All-Star that same year?

       PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT OF RETIREMENT OR WHO MADE NOTABLE COMEBACKS

      481 Name the Galway player who came out of retirement in 2008 after one season?

      482 Name the Armagh All-Ireland winning forward from 2002 who retired after the 2004 championship but who returned to play in the 2007 championship?

      483 Name the Waterford defender who won a Munster medal in 2002, retired after the 2003 championship and who returned to play full-back in the 2005 championship?

      484 Name the Donegal forward who retired after the 2006 championship but who returned to win a National League with the county in 2007?

      485 DJ Carey sensationally first announced his retirement in 1998 and he played his last championship game for Kilkenny in 2005. But which season in between those years did Carey only return to the panel for the All-Ireland semifinal, subsequently winning an All-Star on the back of only two performances?

      486 Brian Corcoran won All-Ireland medals in 2004 and 2005 before retiring after the 2006 All-Ireland final. But which season did Corcoran sensationally first announce his retirement from the game?

      487 Name the Wexford forward who sensationally came out of retirement at short notice to play a part as a substitute in the 2001 drawn and replayed All-Ireland hurling semifinals?

      488 Name the only inter-county manager to come out of retirement and play in the championship in the last ten years?

      489 Name the Galway footballer who came out of retirement to play in the 2006 and 2007 championship?

      490 Name the former Meath All-Ireland winner and All-Star who retired after the 2005 championship before returning for the 2007 and 2008 championships?

      491 Name the Dublin footballer who returned to the Dublin football team in 1974 and who subsequently went on to win three All-Irelands?

      492 Name the Cork defender who came out of retirement in 1992 and who played in that year’s All-Ireland hurling final?

      493 Name the Armagh defender who was dropped from the squad after the 2006 championship for one season but who returned to play in the 2008 championship?

      494 Name the Cork footballer who played in the 1993 All-Ireland football final and who was retired by Larry Tompkins in 2003 before coming back to play in the 2004 championship under Billy Morgan?

      495 Name the Fermanagh goalkeeper who was dropped in 2005 and who was out of the county squad before returning for the 2008 championship and lining out in that year’s Ulster final?

      496 He won seven All-Ireland medals with Kerry but retired in 1990. However, he came out of retirement in 1993 to play in that year’s Munster final. Name him?

      497 Name the Cork defender who went to the US in 1980 but who returned and played in the 1982 All-Ireland hurling final?

      498 Name the legendary Kerry player who retired after the 1966 championship but who returned for the 1968 Munster championship and played for six more years?

      499 Name the Cork hurling goalkeeper who had never played championship before but who came out of retirement in 1952 to win three All-Ireland senior medals in a row?

      500 Kerry’s Mick O’Dwyer retired in 1966 after two leg-breaks before returning for a past v present match in 1968, after which he resurrected his inter-county career, winning All-Ireland medals in 1969 and 1970. In which year did O’Dwyer finally play his last championship match for Kerry?

       GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

      501 Kilkenny footballers re-entered the National Football League in 2008 for the first time since what year - 1995, 1999 or 2002?

      502 Moorefield played which Longford club over three games during the 2007 Leinster club football championship?

      503 Outside of Dublin, which county had two teams representing them in the 2007 National hurling league?

      504 The Tipperary football manager in 2008, John Evans, led which club to All-Ireland success in the last 15 years?

      505 Brendan Cummins plays club hurling with Ballybacon-Grange but with which club does he play football?

      506 Name the two brothers who were sent off in a provincial senior football final in 2008?

      507 Name the player who won two All-Ireland club hurling medals with Portumna and who also played in the 2001 All-Ireland hurling final with Tipperary?

      508 Wexford reached Leinster senior hurling and football finals in 2008 but apart from Cork, name the last county to contest provincial senior finals in both codes in the same season?

      509 Niall Corcoran, who played with Dublin hurlers in the 2008 senior championship, won an All-Ireland minor medal with which county?

      510 In the 1997 All-Ireland final, Maurice Fitzgerald accidentally broke the leg of the Kerry corner-forward. Name him?

      511 Name the Labour Relations Committee Chairman who delivered the binding arbitration ruling which ultimately ended the Cork players strike in 2008?

      512 Name the former Clare hurler who managed Loughrea to the 2007 All-Ireland club hurling final?

      513 Which county won the 2008 Connacht U-21 football title?

      514 Name the Galway midfielder who captained the county to the 2003 Connacht title?

      515 In which year was the blood-sub rule first introduced - 2000, 2001 or 2002?

      516 Only two counties have managed to win All-Ireland senior and minor football All-Irelands in the same year. Name them?

      517 Name the two footballers who played in the 2007 football championship and who managed teams in the 2008 championship?

      518 GAA President Nickey Brennan managed the Kilkenny U-21 hurlers to an All-Ireland U-21 hurling final in which year - 1990, 1993 or 1994?

      519 During Joe Kernan’s six-year stint as Armagh manager, only one team outside of Ulster beat Armagh in the championship. Name the team and the year?

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