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Irish Gaelic footballer

Irish name Ailéin Ó Lorcáin

Sport Gaelic football

Alan Larkin
Personal information
Irish name	Ailéin Ó Lorcáin
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	centreback
Born	Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	QFA
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Raheny
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
?–?	Dublin
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	?
All-Irelands	2
All Stars	0

Alan Larkin is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Raheny club and for the Dublin county team.^[1]

Larkin won his first all-Ireland SFC title in 1974, as part of the Dublin team that defeated Galway by 0–14 to 1–6. He won his second title in 1977, when Dublin defeated Armagh by 5–12 to 3–6. Larkin served as manager of the Dublin minor team and led them to an All-Ireland MFC in the 1980s.^[1]

Post-football career

Larkin has worked for Ministers of the Word in Beaumont Hospital and in his own parish of Kilmore West.^[2] He coached a Dublin minor league team, which won the Leinster Championship in 1994.^[3] He is married to his wife, Rose, and together they have five children and several grandchildren.^[2]

He is part of a "Dublin 70s group" who meet for social events and organise reunions for teams on anniversaries.^[4]

References

1 2 "Raheny GAA Formation of the Club". Archived from the original on 1 December 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
1 2 "GAA football hero ministers to the Word". Catholicireland.net. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
↑ "'He was always the first to training, you'd have to drag him off the field at the end ... '". Independent.ie. 28 July 2000. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
↑ Crowe, Dermot (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". Sunday Independent.

Dublin panels

Dublin – 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (18th title)

1 P. Cullen
2 G. O'Driscoll
3 S. Doherty (c)
4 R. Kelleher
5 P. Reilly
6 A. Larkin
7 G. Wilson
8 S. Rooney
9 B. Mullins
10 B. Doyle
11 T. Hanahoe
12 D. Hickey
13 J. McCarthy
14 J. Keaveney
15 A. O'Toole

Subs not used: 16 B. Pocock; 17 B. Donovan; 18 D. Billings; 19 K. Synnott; 20 P. Gogarty; 21 L. Deegan; 22 P. O'Neill; 23 J. Brogan; 24 F. Ryder

Manager: K. Heffernan
Selectors: L. Redmond; D. Colfer

Dublin – 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (20th title)

1 P. Cullen
2 G. O'Driscoll
3 S. Doherty
4 R. Kelleher
5 T. Drumm
6 K. Moran
7 P. O'Neill
8 B. Mullins
9 B. Brogan
10 A. O'Toole
11 T. Hanahoe (c)
12 D. Hickey
13 B. Doyle
14 J. Keaveney
15 J. McCarthy

Subs used: 17 P. Reilly for P. O'Neill; 16 A. Larkin for B. Brogan; 18 J. Brogan for R. Kelleher

Subs not used: 19 P. Gogarty; 20 B. Pocock; 21 F. Ryder; 22 N. Bernard; 23 M. Hickey; 24 L. Egan; 25 D. Maher

Manager: T. Hanahoe
Selectors: L. Redmond; D. Colfer

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