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Shelsman
22/08/2003, 12:56 PM
I don't know if anybody has noticed but you often hear of former players dying in their 50s. Sounds like a trend to me. Too much heading the ball?

From eleven-a-side.com:

Just days after the sad passing of former Dundalk player of the year, Tony Cavanagh, comes that of another former Lilywhites star: Sean Byrne, who made more than 200 appearances for the club in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, died recently in New Zealand at the age of 48.