He played in four
Connacht Senior Football Championship finals with Leitrim, from 1957 to 1960. In 1958 they were narrowly beaten by a
Galway team backboned by the players who would win three consecutive
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles between 1963 and 1966. In this match, he had his jersey torn to shreds by the Galway backs, and many spectators said his performance was one of the all-time great Gaelic football forward displays. He played on his first Connacht
Railway Cup Team at the age of 20 in 1954. He won his first Railway Cup with Connacht in 1957. He won a
Connacht Junior Football Championship in 1962, and was on the team which lost to
Meath in the
All-Ireland Junior Football Championship final. He was included on the Gaelic football team of the century, of the great
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) footballers who never won an All-Ireland medal. He was the only Leitrim Player chosen on the
Connacht GAA team of the millennium. == Personal life ==