Bernard Flynn

Bernard Flynn
Personal information
Irish name	Bearnard Ó Floinn
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Left Full Forward
Born	Beamore, County Meath, Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
	St. Colmcille's St. Joseph's (Laois) Mullingar Shamrocks (Westmeath)
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1984-1994	Meath
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	5
All-Irelands	2
All Stars	2

Bernard Flynn is a retired inter-county Irish Gaelic footballer for County Meath in Ireland. As a teenager he attended secondary school in St Mary's of Drogheda. He enjoyed success play inter-county football in the 1980s and early 1990s on the Meath team's managed by Sean Boylan. For Meath he usually played at Full Forward. He played club football for St. Colmcille's of East Meath up to the 1991 season when he moved to St. Joseph's (Laois) and then to Mullingar Shamrocks (Westmeath).

During his playing career he won two Senior All Ireland medals (1987 and 1988) as well as five Leinster medals, three National League Medals and a Centenary Cup Medal (a competition played to celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the GAA). He won two All Star awards also.

When playing for Meath he was part of a Full Forward line of Colm O'Rourke, Brian Stafford and himself, widely regarded as one of the best Full forward lines of all time.

He has worked as a GAA pundit for RTE.

External links

Official Meath Website

Meath – 1987 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (4th title)

1 M. McQuillan 2 R. O'Malley 3 M. Lyons (Capt.) 4 T. Ferguson 5 K. Foley 6 L. Harnan 7 M. O'Connell 8 L. Hayes 9 G. McEntee 10 D. Beggy 11 J. Cassells 12 P. J. Gillic 13 C. O'Rourke 14 B. Stafford 15 B. Flynn Subs C. Coyle P. Lyons Manager S. Boylan

Meath – 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (5th title)

1 M. McQuillan 2 R. O'Malley 3 M. Lyons 4 T. Ferguson 5 C. Coyle 6 L. Harnan 7 M. O'Connell 8 L. Hayes 9 G. McEntee 10 D. Beggy 11 J. Cassells (Capt.) 12 P. J. Gillic 13 C. O'Rourke 14 B. Stafford 15 B. Flynn Subs M. McCabe Manager S. Boylan

1987 All Star Gaelic Football Team

1 G. McEntee 2 J. Kearns 3 R. O'Malley 4 C. Corrigan 5 T. Scullion 6 N. Cahalane 7 T. Spillane 8 G. Lynch 9 B. McGilligan 10 D. Beggy 11 L. Tompkins 12 K. Duff 13 V. Daly 14 B. Stafford 15 B. Flynn

1991 All Star Gaelic Football Team

1 M. McQuillan 2 M. Deegan 3 C. Deegan 4 E. Gavin 5 T. Carr 6 K. Barr 7 M. O'Connell 8 B. Breen 9 M. Lynch 10 R. Carr 11 G. Blaney 12 T. Dowd 13 C. O'Rourke 14 B. Stafford 15 B. Flynn

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