| Bobby Beggs | |
| Irish: | Riobeard Ó Beig |
| Occupation: | Fisherman |
| Birth Date: | 1911 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Code: | Football |
| County: | Galway |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Skerries Harps Wolfe Tones |
| Clcounty: | 2 |
| Counties: | Dublin Galway |
| Icyears: | 1934; 1942 1935-1941 |
| Icposition: | Centre-back |
| Icconnacht: | 3 |
| Icleinster: | 2 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nfl: | 1 |
Robert Beggs (25 February 1911 – 7 May 1993) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club sides Skerries Harps and Wolfe Tones and at inter-county level with the Dublin and Galway senior football teams.[1]
Beggs first came to prominence as a Gaelic footballer on the Dublin senior team that lost the 1934 All-Ireland final to Galway.[2] A short time after this defeat, he took up employment in Galway and transferred his football allegiance. Beggs's seven seasons with the Galway senior team yielded a National League title, three Connacht Championship medals and All-Ireland success after a defeat of Kerry in the 1938 final. He also enjoyed club success with the Wolfe Tones club[3] and won two County Championship titles. After returning to Dublin, Beggs once again lined out with his native county and claimed a second All-Ireland winners' medal in 1942 at the expense of his former team.[4] [5] He also secured Railway Cup medals with both Leinster and Connacht.
Born in Skerries, County Dublin, Beggs spent his entire adult life working as a fisherman in his hometown and later in Claddagh, County Galway after moving for work before returning to Skerries.[6] His Galway-born son, Brian Beggs, won an All-Ireland Minor Championship title with Dublin in 1958. Beggs died in Beaumont Hospital on 7 May 1993 after suffering a stroke.
1936, 1941
1943[1]
1938, 1940, 1941[7]
1934, 1942
1935
1936, 1937