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Sep 01, 1919 Blackpool, Ireland Died on 11 Mar 2007 (aged 87)
Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
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About Dave Creedon
- David "Dave" Creedon (1 August 1919 – 11 March 2007) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career with the Cork senior team spanned seventeen years from 1938 to 1955.Born near Blackpool in Cork, Creedon first played competitive hurling during his schooling at the North Monastery.
- He subsequently joined the Glen Rovers senior team and, in a club career that spanned three decades, he won nine county senior championship medals, serving as captain of the team on one occasion.
- As a Gaelic footballer with the Glen's sister club, St.
- Nicholas', Creedon also won three county senior championship medals.
- He finished his club career with Nemo Rangers. Creedon made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he was picked on the Cork minor panel.
- After two unsuccessful years in this grade, he was later added to the Cork junior team.
- A two-time Munster medal winner in this grade, he also won one All-Ireland medal.
- Creedon was added to the Cork senior panel in 1938.
- Over the course of the next ten years he remained as understudy to Tom Mulcahy, however, he did win his first All-Ireland medal in 1946.
- After retiring from inter-county hurling in 1949, Creedon was coaxed back to the Cork team in 1952.
- He went on to win a further three All-Ireland medals in-a-row between 1952 and 1954.
- Creedon also won five Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal.
- He played his last game for Cork in June 1955. In retirement from playing Creedon served as an administrative officer and as a selector with Glen Rovers.
