Éamonn Young
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| Native name | Éamonn de Siún (Irish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 August 1921 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 August 2007 (aged 85) Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Army officer and teacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward D. Young (7 August 1921 – 3 August 2007), known as Éamonn Young, was an Irish Gaelic football player, trainer and selector. Throughout a club career that spanned over 25 years, he played for several clubs in Cork and experienced championship success in different grades with Dohenys, Glen Rovers and Collins. At inter-county level, he was midfield partner to Fachtna O'Donovan on the Cork senior football team that won the 1945 All-Ireland Championship; he had earlier won the first of four Munster Championship medals and ended his career with a National League title as team captain. As well as club and county successes, Young was a regular for Munster for the best part of a decade and won three Railway Cup medals. His inter-county career was followed by several periods as a team trainer and selector.
Young is widely considered one of the best players of his generation, and among the greatest of all time, as well as being regarded by many in the sport as Cork's greatest ever player. An Irish Examiner obituary described him as "an icon of Cork sport" and "the Christy Ring of football." Young was named at midfield on the Cork Team of the Century in 1984 and at left wing-forward on the Cork Team of the Millennium in 2000.