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Tomás Quinn

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Tomás Quinn
Personal information
Irish name Tomás Ó Coinn
Sport Gaelic football
Club(s)
Years Club
St Vincents
Inter-county titles
All Stars 0

Tomás 'Mossy' Quinn (Irish: Tomás Ó Cuinn) is an Irish Gaelic Footballer from Dublin. He plays his club football for St. Vincent's and is the current free-taker for the Dublin Senior Football Team. He has finished the last two seasons in the league as the top scorer for his county and finished as top scorer in the 2005 Championship. Quinn had been coached by former Dublin player and club-mate Jimmy Keaveney

Yearly performance

2005

In the 2005 league Quinn became Dublin's first choice free taker. Throughout the National Football League he showed he could hold his nerve scoring the winning points in two matchs from dead balls. He finished the NFL campaign with 4-23 (0-13f, 1-0 pen, 0-2 ‘45’).

Quinn was on the Dublin panel that beat the Laois in the Leinster Senior Football Championship Final in Croke Park. He scored a total of four points in the final with two being of special note both scored in the dying minutes. The first drew the teams level while the second was the match winning point.

He finished the 2005 All-Ireland and Leinster Championships with a total of 1-29, which confirmed him as the top scoring player from Leinster. He finished in fifth top scorer as the All-Ireland Championship due to a lack of progress on Dublin's part in the 2005 Championship.

2006

He finished the 2006 NFL campaign as top scorer for the Dublin Senior panel with a total score of 3-22 (2-0 pens, 0-13f, 0-4 '45'). He was on Dublins winning side in the 2006 Leinster Senior football championship final clash against Offaly, helping Dublin gain their 46th championship.


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