Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Aidan Brady | |
Irish: | Aodán Ó Brádaigh |
Birth Date: | 1930 |
Death Date: | 3 April 1993 (aged 62) |
Feet: | 6 |
Inches: | 1 |
Occupation: | Director of the Botanic Gardens |
County: | Roscommon |
Province: | Connacht |
Club: | Elphin |
Clcounty: | 5 |
Counties: | Roscommon |
Icposition: | Goalkeeper |
Icyears: | 1951-1963 |
Icprovince: | 4 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Birth Place: | Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland |
Death Place: | Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland |
Aidan Brady (1930 – 3 April 1993) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club side Elphin and at inter-county level with the Roscommon senior football team. He was named on the "Roscommon team of the millennium".[1]
Born in Elphin, County Roscommon, Brady first came to Gaelic football prominence at Summerhill College in Sligo, where he was also selected for the Connacht colleges team. A minor with Roscommon in 1948 and a junior in 1951, he was reserve goalkeeper to Gerry Dolan for the 1951 Connacht Championship before taking over as first-choice 'keeper the following year. The following decade saw Brady win four Connacht Championship titles, while he also ended up on the losing side in the 1962 All-Ireland final. He lined out at full-back for the Elphin club, winning five County Championship titles, while his inclusion on the Connacht team saw him claim two Railway Cup medals. Brady was named on a special Football Team of the Century made up of players who never won an All-Ireland medal and was posthumously named on the Roscommon Football Team of the Millennium.[1]
Brady spent over 25 years as Director of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin.[2] He died after a brief illness at the Bon Secours Hospital on 3 April 1993.
1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957
1952, 1953, 1961, 1962
1957, 1958