Offaly Legend Passes Away

Donie Hanlon scored the winning point in the 1960 Leinster Senior Football Championship.

The first Offaly man to lift a Leinster Senior Football Championship title has passed away.

Donie Hanlon scored the winning point in that Leinster final in 1960 and also took part in Offaly's All Ireland final defeat at the hands of Down a year later.

Hanlon's inter-county career spanned six years, from 58 to 64, while he won a senior county football titles with St Patrick's, Gracefield, and Gracefield-St Mary's.

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