Jackie O'Driscoll

Name: John Francis O’Driscoll
Born: 20 September 1921, Cork
Died: 11 March 1988, Swansea (Wales)
Height: 5.08 ft
Weight: 11.07 st
Position: Winger

Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Full Caps (1948-1949); Eire: 3 Full Caps (1948-1949); League of Ireland: 1 Cap (1947).
Club Honours: (with Waterford) FAI Cup Runner-Up 1940/41; (with Cork United) League of Ireland Champion; FAI Cup Winner 1946/47, Runner-Up 1942/43; (with Swansea) Football League Division Three (South) Champion 1948/49; Welsh Cup Winner 1949/50, Runner-Up 1948/49; (with Llanelly) West Wales Senior Cup Winner 1952/53.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Cork City	-	1939	-	-	-	-
Waterford	-	1941	-	-	-	-
Shelbourne	-	1942	-	-	-	-
Cork United	-	1943	-	-	-	-
Swansea Town	47/48-51/52	Jun-47	£2,000	118/24	6/2	4/1
Llanelly	52/53-56/57	Sep-52	Free	(Southern League)
TOTALS	-	£-		-	-	-

Biography:
Flying winger with a powerful shot, Jackie O’Driscoll enjoyed success in both his native Ireland and in Wales where he would later make his home.

Initially with Cork City, O'Driscoll scored for Waterford in the 1941 FAI Cup Final, though he still finished as runner-up. After a brief spell with Shelbourne he returned to his home-town with the "new" Cork United. Back in Cork he appeared in two more FAI Cup Finals, claiming a winner's medal against Bohemians in 1947, and also featured in League successes.

In June 1947 O'Driscoll transferred to Swansea Town in a £3,000 deal. A great favourite at Vetch Field, he helped the Swans to consecutive Welsh Cup Finals, a 2-0 defeat by Merthyr Tydfil in 1949 before missing the 4-1 win over Swansea a year later, and helped the club to promotion as Division Three (South) Champions in 1948/49. A fractued ankle during the 1950/51 season seemed to take the edge off O'Driscoll's game and he was released early in the 1952/53 season.

Capped by both the IFA and FAI, three times by each, O'Driscoll's first international appearance came in a 6-2 British Championship defeat by England in October 1948 as he appeared in each of the matches in that season's tournament. He made his Eire debut in a 1-0 friendly defeat by Switzerland at Dalymount Park, winning further caps against Belgium and Switzerland.

Later O'Driscoll played with Llanelly (now Llanelli), featuring in their 1953 West Wales Senior Cup win over Swansea. After retiring as a player in September 1956 he settled in Wales, running the Greyhound Inn in Reynoldston.

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Ireland Cap Details:
09-10-1948 England. H L 2-6 BC
17-11-1948 Scotland A L 2-3 BC
09-03-1949 Wales... H L 0-2 BC

Summary: 3/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 3.

Eire Cap Details:
05-12-1948 Switzerland H L 0-1 FR
24-04-1949 Belgium.... H L 0-2 FR
02-06-1949 Sweden..... A L 1-3 WCQ

Summary: 3/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 3.

Jimmy O'Neill

Name: James O’Neill
Born: 24 November 1941, Larne
Height: 5.11 ft
Weight: 11.09 st
Position: Centre-Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1962), 1 Under-23 Cap (1962), 3 Schoolboy Caps (1956-1957).
Club Honours: (with Coleraine) City Cup Winner 1968/69; Ulster Cup Winner 1968/69.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Mayharaming Juniors		-	Youth	-	-	-	-	-
Sunderland	61/62	Nov-58	-	7(0)/ 6	-	-	-	-
Walsall	62/63-64/65	Dec-62	-	38(0)/13	1(0)/0	-	-	-
Hakoah	1965 - 1966	May-65	-	(Australian Victorian State League)
Darlington	67/68	Oct-67	-	20(3)/ 4	1(0)/0	-	-	-
Coleraine	-	Jun-68	-	-	-	-	-	-
Hakoah	1970	-	-	(Australian Victorian State League)
TOTALS	-	£-		65(3)/23	2(0)/0	-	-	-

Biography:Jimmy O’Neill made a sensational breakthrough at Sunderland in the second half of the 1961/62 season. On his debut, against Bristol Rovers in January 1962, he scored twice in a 6-1 win. He was then dropped for the next game. A month later he made a scoring return to the first eleven, but was again dropped for the next match. He was then given a five game run in the side that yielded three goals, but that proved to be it for his Roker Park career. The man who prevented O’Neill from having a sustained impact in the Sunderland number nine shirt? Brian Clough, whose return of 54 goals from 61 matches in the famous red-and-white-stripes perhaps excuses O’Neill’s under-utilisation.

Of course Northern Ireland couldn’t ignore a player of such striking ability and in February 1962 he led the line for the Under-23 team that drew 0-0 with Wales. Two months later he again faced Wales for his Full international debut, this time however he finished on the end of a 4-0 defeat. Also capped while a schoolboy at Larne Tech, O’Neill was raised in Magheramorne on the shores of Larne Lough. He was first sent to Sunderland in 1957, signing on his sixteenth birthday in November 1961. He left Roker Park, frustrated, in December 1962, signing with Walsall. Ironically, that very month, Clough suffered an injury that effectively ended his career – what might have been?

O’Neill had joined a Walsall side struggling in the relegation places in Division Two. He was generally employed by the Saddlers in an advanced “midfield” role, scoring seven times in twenty appearances in that first campaign. The most notable of those goals was the winner against a Chelsea side set for promotion and featuring England ‘keeper Peter Bonetti. Still, it was not enough, and Walsall dropped in to Division Three. Noted as a player of high quality, who on his day could light up any match, O’Neill’s impact on Division Three was limited by injury and illness to just eighteen appearances and six goals in two seasons.

In 1965 O’Neill moved to Australia, playing two seasons with Hakoah. He returned to England for a brief Football League swansong with Fourth Division Darlington. Later he had a brief but prolific spell with Coleraine before a second spell with Hakoah.

Northern Ireland Cap details:
11-04-1962 Wales... A L 0-4 BC

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

Tony O'Doherty

Name: Anthony O’Doherty
Born: 23 April 1947, Londonderry
Height:
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Position: Midfielder


Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Full Caps (1970), 1 Under-23 Cap (1969); Irish League: 4 Caps / 1 Goal (1968-1970).
Club Honours: (with Coleraine) Ulster Cup Winner; City Cup Winner; Blaxnit All-Ireland Cup Winner; Top Four Cup Winner; (with Finn Harps) FAI Cup Winner 1973/74; (with Dundalk) FAI Cup Winner 1980/81; (with Derry City) First Division Shield Winner 1985/86.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Europe	Other
Coleraine	64/65-70/71	-	Youth	*213(-)/3	-	7(0)/0	-
Finn Harps	72/73-79/80	-72	£4,000	*186(-)/?	-	7(0)/0	-
Dundalk	80/81	Sep-80	-	19(5)/0	3(2)/0	2(0)/0	4(0)/0
Ballymena United	81/82	-	-	9(0)/0	-	2(0)/0	-
Derry City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£-		434(5)/3	3(2)/0	18(0)/0	4(0)/0

* all domestic games

Biography:
Tony O’Doherty’s class was spotted early by those in control of the Irish game. Combining part-time football with his job as a clerk he was honoured by the Irish League and was selected as captain of the Northern Ireland Under-23 side that faced Italy in March 1969 – this despite the presence in the team of Allan Hunter, Pat Rice and Brian Hamilton. The Italians won 2-1, but Billy Bingham was impressed enough to include O’Doherty in the panel for that season’s Home Nations Championship.

Capable of playing as either a creative wing-half or as a centre-back lynch-pin, O’Doherty had to wait until April 1970 for his first Full cap. That came as a midfielder, in front of 100,000 people at Wembley, as Northern Ireland lost 3-1. Four days later he made his only other international appearance, as a second half substitute for Billy Campbell, in a 1-0 defeat by Wales in Swansea.

With Bertie Peacock’s highly successful Coleraine side of the late-sixties and early-seventies, O’Doherty collected a clutch of medals and a host of admirers. He was continuously linked with moves across the Irish Sea, but so valued was he by Coleraine that they stuck a £20,000 valuation on his head.

O’Doherty rejected all overtures from full-time football, and when he did leave the Showgrounds in 1971 it seemed that he had given-up the game altogether. He re-emerged with Finn Harps a year later and is still regarded as one of the greatest ever players to grace the field at Finn Park and was a key member of the Harps side that won the 1974 FAI Cup, their only major honour. During O’Doherty’s time with the club they also finished runners-up in the League of Ireland three times and in the League Cup twice.

After nearly 200 appearances for Harps, O’Doherty left for Dundalk. Although he spent only a season at Oriel Park, he is fondly remembered, for it was another remarkable campaign for Jim McLaughlin’s men. The FAI Cup, President’s Cup and League Cup were all won, runners-up spot in the League was claimed and a UEFA Cup match-up with Porto was lost narrowly, 1-0 on aggregate.

Later O’Doherty played for Ballymena and for Derry City in their first season in the League of Ireland, helping them to the First Division Shield. He was also manager at the Brandywell from October 1993 to December 1994. Since severing his ties with the everyday game, O’Doherty has worked as a football pundit and is active in community relations in the Derry area.

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Northern Ireland Cap Details:
21-04-1970 England. A L 1-3 BC
25-04-1970 Wales... A L 0-1 BC sub

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

Northern Ireland Under-23 Cap Details:
26-03-1969 Italy... A L 1-2 FR

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

Mick O'Brien

Name: Michael Terence O’Brien
Born: 10 August 1893, Kilcock, Co. Kildare
Died: 21 September 1940, Uxbridge (England)
Height: 6.01½ ft
Weight: 13.07 st
Position: Centre-Half

Representative Honours: Ireland: 10 Full Caps (1921-1927); Irish Free State: 4 Full Caps (1927-1932).

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Walker Celtic	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wallsend	-	-	-	-	(North Eastern League)
Blyth Spartans	-	-	-	-	(North Eastern League)
Newcastle East End	-	-	-	-	-	-
Celtic	-	-	-	0/ 0	-	-
Brentford	14/15-19/20	Dec-14	-	-	-	-
Alloa Athletic	18/19	-	Trial	-	-	-
Norwich City	19/20	Aug-19	-	-	(Southern League)
South Shields	19/20	Dec-19	-	3/ 0	-	-
Q.P.R.	20/21-21/22	May-20	-	66/ 3	4/1	-
Leicester City	21/22-23/24	Mar-22	-	65/ 6	2/0	-
Hull City	24/25-25/26	Jun-24	-	74/ 0	6/1	-
Brooklyn Wanderers	1926	May-26	-	7/ 0	(American Soccer League)
Derby County	26/27-27/28	Dec-26	-	3/ 0	2/0	-
Walsall	28/29	Jun-28	-	34/ 0	3/0	-
Norwich City	29/30-30/31	c/s-29	-	64/ 5	1/0	-
Watford	31/32-32/33	Jun-31	-	61/ 5	10/1	-
TOTALS	-	£-		377/19	28/3	-

Coaching Career:

Brentford (Assistant-Manager)
Middlesex County FA (Coach)

QPR (Manager) May/33 – Apr/35
Ipswich Town (Manager) May/36 – Aug/37

Biography:
To follow.


Wikipedia

Ireland Cap Details:
26-02-1921 Scotland H L 0-2 BC
04-03-1922 Scotland A L 1-2 BC
01-04-1922 Wales... H D 1-1 BC
01-03-1924 Scotland A L 0-2 BC
15-03-1924 Wales... H L 0-1 BC
22-10-1924 England. A L 1-3 BC
28-02-1925 Scotland H L 0-3 BC
18-04-1925 Wales... A D 0-0 BC
13-02-1926 Wales... H W 3-0 BC
09-04-1927 Wales... A D 2-2 BC

Summary: 10/0. Won 1, Drew 3, Lost 6.