Al-James Hannigan

Name: Al-James Hannigan
Born: 26 January 1971, Islington, London (England)
Height: 
Weight: 
Position: Right-Back / Centre-Back

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: Under-18.
Club Honours: (with Arsenal) FA Youth Cup Winner 1987/88.

Club Career:
Arsenal ........... 89/90-90/91 Jun-89 Youth 0(0)/0
Torquay United .... 89/90 ............. Loan 7(-)/0
Barnet ............ 91/92
Harwich & Parkeston
Marlow ............ 92/93
Enfield Town
Rushden & Diamonds. 95/96-96/97 Jun-95 ..£5k 31(2)/3 5(0)/2 1(0)/ 6(0)/0
Enfield Town ...... 96/97 ..... Sep-96 ..£6k
Yeovil Town
Slough Town
Hayes
St Albans City
Dulwich Hamlet
Bishop's Stortford
Carshalton Athletic
Enfield Town
Leyton
Kettering Town
Fisher Athletic
East Thurrock United
Dulwich Hamlet
Enfield
Enfield Town
Aveley
Cray Wanderers

Biography:
A tough-tackling defender, Al-James Hannigan was London-born to a Northern Irish mother. A Spurs fan as a boy, he eventually joined Arsenal as a teenager and played alongside Steve Morrow in the 1988 FA Youth Cup final win over Doncaster Rovers.

James played for Northern Ireland at youth level and was included in the Under-21 squad for a match against Israel in 1990, but he didn't play in that match.

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Tom Flanagan

Name: Thomas Michael Flanagan
Born: 21 October 1991, Hammersmith, London (England)
Height: 6.04 ft / 1.93 m
Weight: 12.00 st / 76 kg
Position: Defender

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Under-21 Cap (2012).
Club Honours: (with Burton) Football League One Runner-Up 2015/16 (promoted).

Club Career:
Teams ...... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Other
MK Dons .... 09/10-14/15 Aug-09 Youth 29 (8)/3 3(1)/0 3(0)/0 1(0)/0
Kettering T. 10/11 ..... Jan-11 .Loan 22 (0)/1 (Conference Premier)
Gillingham . 12/13 ..... Jul-12 .Loan 12 (1)/1 ...... 1(0)/0 1(0)/0
Barnet ..... 12/13 ..... Mar-13 .Loan .8 (1)/0 
Stevenage .. 13/14 ..... Mar-13 .Loan .1 (1)/0
Plymouth Arg 14/15 ..... Jan-15 .Loan .4 (0)/0
Burton Alb.. 15/16-17/18 Aug-15 .Free
Sunderland . 18/19- date Jun-18 .Free

Biography:
Called into the senior squad for the first time in August 2016 and capped for the first time against New Zealand the following June.

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Northern Ireland Cap Details:
02-06-2017 New Zeland H W 1-0 FR

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
13-11-2012 England A L 0-2 FR

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Kevin O'Flanagan

Name: Dr. Kevin Patrick O'Flanagan
Born: 10 June 1919, Dublin
Died: 26 May 2006, Dublin
Position: Forward

Representative Honours: (Northern) Ireland: 2 "Victory" Caps (1946), 2 Amateur Caps / 1 Goal (1949-1950); Eire: 10 Full Caps / 3 Goals (1937-1947), Junior Representative (1937); League of Ireland Representative;
(at Rugby) Ireland: 1 Cap (1947), 2 Unofficial Caps (1942-1946); Leinster; Irish Universities.
Club Honours: (with Bohemians) FAI Cup Runner-Up 1944/45; Dublin-Belfast Inter City Cup Winner 1944/45.

Club Career:

Clubs	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other	War-Time
Home Farm	-	-	Youth	-	-	-	-
Bohemians	35/36-44/45	-	Amat	*145/95	-	-	-
Arsenal	45/46-46/47	Aug-45	Amat	14/ 3	2/0	-	18/11
Corinthian-Casuals	-	-	Amat	-	(Isthmian League)
Barnet	-	-	Amat	-	(Athenian League)
Brentford	49/50	Nov-49	Amat	6/ 0	1/0	-	-
TOTALS		£-		165/98	3/0	-	18/11

* all games.

Rugby Career:
Teams
UCD
Lansdowne
London Irish

Biography:
Kevin O'Flanagan was a multi-talented sportsman. He was capped at international level in football and rugby, was a Gaelic footballer for Dublin Minors, an Irish champion at athletics, a scratch golfer and an accomplished tennis player. His younger brother, Mick, was also a dual-code international having represented southern Ireland at football and Ireland at rugby.

O'Flanagan, already an Éire Junior international, made his international bow at the age of just eighteen as the FAI's Ireland side drew 3-3 against Norway in a must-win World Cup qualifier. A win would have sealed qualification for the 1938 World Cup Finals in France, though the youngster made do with a goal (according to some sources the team's 50th) having had another ruled out for off-side in the opening minutes. He remained a regular for the FAI team until after the War.

As a teenager O'Flanagan had combined his association and Gaelic football codes with some success, that is until is daliances with the "foreign game" were discovered and the GAA issued him with the mandatory life-ban. It wasn't until he was studying medicine at University College, Dublin that he first tried his hand at rugby and he proved a natural, first earning selection for Leinster in 1940 and for an Ireland XV that faced the Army at Ravenhill two years later. In parallel with his successes in team sports he was a four-time Irish long-jump champion and Irish sprint champion at 60 and 100 metres.

O'Flanagan rose to captain the all-amateur Bohemians club and in 1945 his goalscoring, and that of brother Mick, fired the club to an FAI Cup Final appearance against Shamrock Rovers and a Intercity Cup Final win over Belfast Celtic. O'Flanagan did blot his copy book against Celtic as he was sent-off.

In 1945, after completing his studies, O'Flanagan took a medical post in Middlesex. He signed amateur forms with Arsenal, turning down a professional deal so that he could continue playing rugby. He scored on his Gunners debut in a 6-2 Football League South defeat by Charlton in October 1945 and finished the last War-Time season as the club's topscorer with eleven goals, mainly from the wing. He was also honoured by the IFA for the first time with selection for the Victory Internationals against Scotland and Wales.

Nicknamed "The Flying Doctor", with the oval ball O'Flanagan was turning out with London Irish and played for an Ireland XV against France on 26 January 1946 in an unofficial international. Two weeks later he missed out on an appearance against England at Lansdowne Road in the Five Nations as he was fog-bound in London.

O'Flanagan made his Football League-proper debut against Blackburn in a 3-1 defeat in September 1946 but played just fourteen times in that first post-War season due to work and, to a lesser extent, rugby commitments. In December 1947 he lined out for Ireland in a test match against a touring Australia side for his only full rugby cap.

Although he remained on the books at Highbury until 1949, O'Flanagan made no further appearances for Arsenal. He did play non-league football with Corinthian Casuals and Barnet, earning a first Amateur Ireland cap as centre-forward against England in February 1949. During the 1949/50 season he played with Brentford, and won a second Amateur cap, scoring a second half consolation from outside-right, before his playing career was ended by an ankle injury.

In 1948 O'Flanagan, who would have likely appeared at the Olympics of 1940 and 1944 had they not been cancelled due to the Second World War, was appointed to the British Olympic Medical Committee and so began a five decade association with the Olympic movement. With his own sporting days behind him, O'Flanagan became an acknowledge sports injury expert, worked with the Irish Olympic team and in 1976 was appointed to the International Olympic Committee.

Obituary

Ireland Victory Cap Details:
02-02-1946 Scotland...... H L 2-3
04-05-1946 Wales......... A W 1-0

Summary: 2/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
05-02-1949 England....... A W 1-0
04-02-1950 England....... H L 1-3 1 Goal

Summary: 2/1. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Eire (FAI) Cap Details:
07-11-1937 Norway........ H D 3-3 WCQ 1 Goal
18-05-1938 Czechoslovakia A D 2-2 FR
22-05-1938 Poland........ A L 0-6 FR
13-11-1938 Poland........ H W 3-2 FR
19-03-1939 Hungary....... H D 2-2 FR
18-05-1939 Hungary....... A D 2-2 FR. 2 Goal
23-05-1939 Germany....... A D 1-1 FR
30-09-1946 England....... H L 0-1 FR
02-03-1947 Spain......... H W 3-2 FR
04-05-1947 Portugal...... H L 0-2 FR

Summary: 10/3. Won 2, Drew 5, Lost 3.

League of Ireland Representative Games:
11-03-1939 Irish League... A W 2-1 1 Goal
17-03-1939 Scottish League H W 2-1
14-04-1941 NIR League..... A L 1-2 1 Goal
17-03-1944 NIR League..... H L 3-4
10-04-1944 NIR League..... A D 2-2
17-03-1945 NIR League..... H W 2-1
02-04-1945 NIR League..... A W 5-3 1 Goal

Summary: 7/3. Won 4, Drew 1, Lost 2.

Ireland Rugby International Caps:
06-12-1947 Australia..... H L 3-16

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Gerry McMahon

Name: Gerard Joseph McMahon
Born: 29 December 1973, Belfast
Height: 5.10 ft
Weight: 12.00 st
Position: Winger/Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 17 Full Caps/2 Goals (1995-1997), 3 ‘B’ Caps (1994-1998), 1 Under-21 Cap (1994), 2 Under-18 Schools.
Club Honours: (with Glenavon) Irish Cup Winner 1991/92; Mid-Ulster Cup Winner 1991/92, 2004/05; Irish League Division One Runner-Up 2004/05 (promoted via Play-Off).

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Glenavon	90/91-91/92	Apr-91	Youth	6 (1)/ 3	4(0)/2	1(0)/0	-	5(0)/1
Tottenham H.	92/93-96/97	Jul-92	£100k	9 (7)/ 0	0(1)/0	3(0)/0	3(0)/1	-
Barnet	94/95	Oct-94	Loan	10(0)/ 2	2(0)/1	-	-	1(0)/0
VfB Stuttgart	-	Sep-96	Trial	0 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Udinese	-	Sep-96	Trial	0 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Stoke City	96/97-97/98	Sep-96	£450k	38(14)/ 3	1(0)/0	5(3)/0	-	-
St. Johnstone	98/99-99/00	Feb-98	£85k	31(19)/ 1	1(1)/0	3(1)/4	2(0)/0	-
Notts County	-	Jul-00	Trial	0 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Macclsefield	-	Jul-00	Trial	0 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Glenavon	00/01-08/09	Sep-00	Free	164(12)/33	14(2)/4	28(1)/7	2(0)/0	9(3)/3
Loughgall	12/13-13/14	Jan-13	Free	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£635k		258(52)/42	22(4)/7	40(5)/8	7(0)/1	15(3)/4

Biography:
Gerard McMahon came to prominence with Glenavon in the early nineties with his explosive change of pace and accurate finish which earned him a dream move from Mourneview Park to White Hart Lane in 1992.

McMahon had started with Glenavon as a 14 year old, helping the Lurgan club to the Youth League Championship in 1991/92. He had only broken into the Glenavon first team in the second half of the 1991/92 season, making his Irish League debut against Newry in February 1992, and established himself in the side for the rest of the season. It was his performance in the 4-0 Bass Irish Cup sixth round replay win against Glentoran that saw scouts from some of England’s biggest clubs inquiring about him, and by the middle of March a transfer had been agreed with Tottenham Hotspur.

With the transfer business out of the way, McMahon was free to concentrate on Glenavon’s bid for the Irish Cup. Despite being without Glenn Ferguson and Stephen McBride through injury, Glenavon comfortably cruised to the final and, in a fairytale game, McMahon scored the free-kick which defeated Linfield 2-1.

When Gerard moved to London for £100,000 in the summer of 1992 it took him quite a while to settle, with the departure of Terry Venables, and the arrival of Ossie Ardiles. However, he persevered and was eventually rewarded when his long-awaited first-team chance came at the end of the 1994-95 season. McMahon’s Spurs debut came in May 1995, and he was a regular in the first-team squad throughout the following season, without really establishing himself in the starting eleven.

In May 1995 he won the first of his seventeen caps when he played for Northern Ireland against Canada in Edmonton.

McMahon found his first-team opportunities at White Hart Lane limited and so, in September 1996, he stepped down a division in order to further his career. The Stoke manager, Lou Macari paid £450,000 for his signature, and made McMahon a regular in the starting eleven, but with Brian Little replacing Macari in the summer of 1997 it seemed that McMahon didn’t belong in Stoke’s first-team plans either.

In February 1998 St Johnstone signed McMahon from Stoke for £85,000. At McDiarmid Park he linked up with fellow Northern Ireland players Danny Griffin and George O’Boyle. Again however McMahon found himself out of the first-team following a change of manager, with Paul Sturrock leaving St Johnstone in 1999, and in the summer of 2000, when his contract expired, McMahon was allowed to leave.

After trials with Notts County and Macclesfield, McMahon returned to Glenavon in August 2000, initially on a short term contract, but after a month Colin Malone convinced him to sign a permanent deal. It proved a productive move as the Lurgan Blues finished as Irish League runners-up. McMahon, always honest about his ambitions to move back across the water and regain his international place, was appointed club captain for the 2001/02 season. A leg break picked up in December 2002 ruled him out of football for a year-and-a-half. In his absence, Glenavon really struggled, and despite his appointment as assistant-manager, they were relegated to the Irish League Intermediate Division One at the end of the 2003/04 season.

McMahon returned to fitness, helping Glenavon regain their Premier League position as play-off winners in 2005, and subsequently consolidate their top-flight position the following seasons. 2008/09 was McMahon's testimonial season and marked his final campaign as a Glenavon player. On his retirement he was widely lauded as among the finest Irish League players of his generation. He remained at Mourneview as reserve team manager until October 2012 when he became assistant manager at Loughgall. With Loughgall he made a return to the playing field. He left Lakeview following a managerial shake-up mid-way through the 2013/14 season.

He then had a spell in charge of Dromara Village before being appointed manager at Lurgan Celtic in May 2018.

Glenavon Tribute

Northern Ireland Cap Details:
22-05-1995 Canada....... A L 0-2 FR. sub
25-05-1995 Chile........ N L 1-2 FR
07-06-1995 Latvia....... H L 1-2 ECQ
11-10-1995 Liechtenstein A W 4-0 ECQ 1 Goal
27-03-1996 Norway....... H L 0-2 FR. sub
24-04-1996 Sweden....... H L 1-2 FR. 1 Goal
29-05-1996 Germany...... H D 1-1 FR
05-10-1996 Armenia...... H D 1-1 WCQ sub
14-12-1996 Albania...... H W 2-0 WCQ sub
11-02-1997 Belgium...... H W 3-0 FR
29-03-1997 Portugal..... H D 0-0 WCQ sub
02-04-1997 Ukraine...... A L 1-2 WCQ sub
30-04-1997 Armenia...... A D 0-0 WCQ sub
21-05-1997 Thailand..... A D 0-0 FR. sub
20-08-1997 Germany...... H L 1-3 WCQ sub
10-09-1997 Albania...... A L 0-1 WCQ sub
11-10-1997 Portugal..... A L 0-1 WCQ sub

Summary: 6(11)/2. Won 3, Drew 5, Lost 9.

Northern Ireland B Cap Details:
10-05-1994 England...... A L 2-4 FR sub
21-02-1995 Scotland..... A L 0-3 FR sub
11-02-1998 Rep. Ireland. A W 1-0 FR

Summary: 1(2)/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
22-03-1994 Romania...... H D 0-0 FR sub

Summary: 0(1)/0. Won 0, Drew 1, Lost 0.

Mark Hughes

Name: Mark Anthony Hughes

Born: 16 September 1983, Dungannon

Height: 5.10 ft (1.78 m)

Weight: 12.04 st (78 kg)

Position: Midfielder/Right-Back

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Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Full Caps (2006), 1 Under-23 Cap (2004), 12 Under-21 Caps (2002-2005), Youth Caps.

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Club Career:

Clubs......... --Seasons-- Signed --Fee-- League FA Cup Lge Cup Other

Tottenham H. . 01/02-04/05 Aug-01 Trainee .0(0)/0

Northampton T. 04/05...... Aug-04 ...Loan .3(0)/0

Oldham Ath.... 04/05-05/06 Nov-04 Nominal 55(5)/1 7(0)/0 1(0)/0 2(3)/0

Thurrock...... 06/07...... Jul-06 ...Free (Football Conference South)

Chesterfield.. 06/07...... Nov-06 ...Loan .2(0)/1 1(0)/0

Stevenage Boro 06/07...... Jan-07 ...Free .8(2)/2 ............. 3(0)/0 (Conf. Nat'l)

Chester City.. 07/08-08/09 Aug-07 ...Free 64(5)/4 2(0)/0 1(0)/0 3(0)/0

Barnet ....... 08/09-11/12 Feb-09 .. Free 123(5)/7 5(0)/0 4(0)/1 8(0)/1
Eastleigh .... 12/13 ..... Aug-12 .. Free (Football Conference South)
Chelmsford C. .13/14-15/16 Jul-13 .. Free (Football Conference South/National League South)
Eastbourne Bor 16/17- date c/s-16 .. Free (National League South)

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Biography:

A tough-tackling midfielder, also capable at right-back, Mark Hughes came through the ranks at Tottenham and was a regular in the Northern Ireland at various youth levels. After a brief loan spell with Nortmapton he impressed while on a temporary deal at Oldham where the deal became permanent. Established as a regular at Boundary Park, Lawrie Sanchez included Hughes in the young Northern Ireland squad for the USA tour in 2006. He played in both matches, coming on as a substitute against Uruguay and Romania.

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Shortly after his return from the US, Hughes, having fallen out of favour, secured an early release from his contract at Oldham. Initially signed by Conference South club, Thurrock, he returned to the Football League on an emergency two month loan with Chesterfield in November. Although he scored on his Spireites debut against Gillingham, he was unable to convince boss Roy McFarland to offer him a permanent deal and he returned to Thurrock.

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Hughes signed for Stevenage Borough in January 2007, but was released the following May. He returned to the Football League for the 2007/08 season with Chester City and in February 2009 he was released to join Barnet. For the Bees he played under Lawrie Sanchez during the 2011/12 season as captain and scored the goal that secured their League status on the closing day of the season against Burton.

Hughes was released when his contract expired in the summer of 2012. He joined non-league Eastleigh. He was then captain at Chelmsford until his release in June 2016.

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Northern Ireland Cap Details:

21-05-2006 Uruguay ........... N L 0-1 FR sub

26-05-2006 Romania ........... N L 0-2 FR sub

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Summary: 0(2)/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Northern Ireland Under-23 Cap Details:
27-04-2004 Serbia & Montenegro H D 0-0 FR sub

Summary: 0(1)/0. Won 0, Drew 1, Lost 0.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
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