How many LOI players have excelled at other sports?

**Buller** · 28/07/2006, 12:13 AM

Frank Flattery was a star player Galway Bohemians during the 1940's and played for connaught and some rugby team... he played gaelic aswell but had to give it up because of the ban. he also happens to be my great uncle!

**Raheen** · 28/07/2006, 10:45 AM

Noel Cantwell, recently deceased Ireland legend, also played cricket for Ireland.

Johnny Murphy played for a while with Arsenal and Ireland youths with David O'Leary packed it in and came home to play rugby with Greystones and Leinster. Also had try outs with the Dallas Cowboys as a kicker

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**ghBohs** · 28/07/2006, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by wws

Oliver St John Gogarty

(17 sports) all at the athens olimpiad whilst playing for bohs

wws - have you got a source for this? I've done a considerable amount of research into Gogarty and this is news to me. He won a silver for poetry for 'Ode to the Tailteann Games' in Paris in 1924 but I'm not aware of him competing in any other Olympic disciplines. His Bohs career ended in 1899 so his foray into the Olympic arena was a quarter of a century away.