Brendan Bowyer \u2013 Lead singer with famous Royal Showband.<\/p>\n
Joe Dolan \u2013 the Pride of the Midlands, from the Drifters.<\/p>\n
Michael and Jim Hand \u2013 the famous Hand Twins.<\/p>\n
Shay O\u2019Hara and Doc Carroll \u2013 Members of Royal Blues of \u2018Old Man Trouble\u2019 fame.<\/p>\n
Paul Dolan \u2013 Olympic Athlete; famous Irish middle distance champion and record holder.<\/p>\n
Gerry O\u2019Byrne \u2013 Kerry; of Junior Sports Magazine.<\/p>\n
Paddy O\u2019Brien \u2013 R.T.E. voice of greyhound racing.<\/p>\n
Noel McCaul \u2013 Compere of Top 10.<\/p>\n
Liam Campbell \u2013 R.T.E. G.A.A. compere.<\/p>\n
Brendan O\u2019Duill \u2013 Gael Linn Cabaret Ariste.<\/p>\n
Padraig O\u2019Mealoid \u2013 R.T.E. Newsreader.<\/p>\n
Pat O\u2019Flynn \u2013 Manager of Millionaires Showband.<\/p>\n
Tom Dunphy \u2013 Royal Showband.<\/p>\n
Dermot O\u2019Brien \u2013 Captain Louth All-Ireland Champions; leader of Clubmen and Jamboree.<\/p>\n
Se\u00e1n Og O\u2019Ceallochain \u2013 R.E. Gaelic Games; former Dublin All-Ireland hurler.<\/p>\n
Larry Cunningham \u2013 The \u2018Lovely Leitrim\u2019 and \u2018Wicklow Hills\u2019 singing star of the Mighty Avons.<\/p>\n
Dickie Rock \u2013 Lead singer with the Miami Showband.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Magee \u2013 Captain and founder of the Team; radio disc jockey and sports commentator; plus \u2019Beat the Memory Man.\u2019<\/p>\n
John Kelly \u2013 Lead singer with the Navak Showband.<\/p>\n
T.J. Byrne \u2013 Manager of the one and only Royal Showband.<\/p>\n
Connie Lynch \u2013 Manager of the Aircords.<\/p>\n
Bill O\u2019Donovan \u2013 Chief producer of Eamon Andrews Studios.<\/p>\n
Mick Lynch \u2013 One of Ireland\u2019s greatest sportsmen.<\/p>\n
Jim Tunney \u2013 of R.E. Junior Sports Magazine.<\/p>\n
Frankie Byrne \u2013 of Junior Sports Magazine and one of the best forwards ever to play in Croke Park.<\/p>\n
[R.E. Radi\u00f3 \u00c9ireann]<\/p>\n
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THE KILDARE TEAM:<\/strong><\/p>\n Des Marron (Clane), Paddy Feeley (Suncroft), Danny Flood (Athy), Mick Doyle (Sarsfields), Paddy Gibbons (Kilcock), Larry McCormack (Kilcock), Jim Clarke (Ballymore), Paddy Moore (Carbury), Eddie O\u2019Loughlin (Round Towers), Seamus Aldridge (Round Towers), Peter Mooney (Ballymore), Brendan Kehoe, Eddie Tracy (Round Towers), Paddy O\u2019Loughlin (Round Towers), and Davy Dalton (Kilcock).<\/p>\n Subs: Mick Byrne, Pa Connolly, Jimmy Curtis and Toss McCarthy.<\/p>\n After the match there was a dance in the Dreamland Ballroom, Athy. The Raindrops Showband provided the music and there were special cabaret spots by members of the All-Stars. The new football used in the game was autographed by the \u2018Stars\u2019 and raffled at the dance. Admission was 7s. 6d. with dancing from 10 p.m. \u2013 2a.m., a memorable day and night was had by all.<\/p>\n James Durney<\/strong><\/p>\n (re-typed by Harry Blake)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kildare Round Towers G.F.C. had four representatives on the Kildare Leinster S.F.C. winning side of 1956 which played Jimmy McGee\u2019s All-Stars on Monday 18 July, 1966 in aid of the Rev. Frank Duffy C.S.S.P. Presentation. The purpose of the challenge match was to provide financial assistance for Fr. Frank Duffy \u2013 who had played football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-history","category-sport"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kildare-All-Stars-scaled-e1738942716588.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kildare-All-Stars-scaled-e1738942716588.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"James Durney","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/jdurney\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions\/7354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}