Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Frankie Byrne | |
Irish: | Prionsias Ó Broin |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 8 |
Occupation: | Primary school teacher |
County: | Meath |
Province: | Leinster |
Club: | Navan Parnells Erin's Hope Clann na nGael Navan O'Mahonys |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Counties: | Meath |
Icposition: | Right wing-forward |
Icyears: | 1943–1955 |
Icprovince: | 4 |
Icallireland: | 2 |
Nfl: | 2 |
Birth Date: | May 1924 |
Birth Place: | Navan, County Meath, Ireland |
Death Date: | [1] |
Death Place: | Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland |
Frankie Byrne (May 1924 – 8 February 2019) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a right wing-forward for the Meath county team.[2]
Byrne made his senior début during the 1943 championship. He went on to play a key role during a golden age for Meath, and won one All-Ireland medal, three Leinster medals and two National League medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion.