Paddy Cullen

Paddy Cullen

Personal information
Irish name	Pádraig Ó Cuilinn
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Goalkeeper
Born	Dublin, Ireland
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1966 - 1979	Dublin
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	6
All Irelands	3
All Stars	4

Paddy Cullen is a former inter-county goalkeeper and manager with the Dublin GAA senior football team. During his player career Cullen won three All-Irelands and four all-stars awards.

Cullen won his first of his all-Irelands when Dublin defeated Galway by a scoreline of 0-14 to 1-6 in a game in which Cullen saved a penalty. This penalty save that famously ended Galways hopes of winning the all-Ireland is ranked as number 17 in the Top 20 GAA Moments. He won his second all-star in 1976 when Dublin defeated bitter rivals Kerry 3-8 to 0-10 in the final in Croke Park. He won his final all-Ireland in 1977 in a game where he had three goals scored against him, despite this Dublin had a comfortable 5-12 to 3-6 win over Armagh. Cullen is famously renowned for the freak incident in which he conceded a goal against Kerry in the 1978 all-Ireland final. Mikey Sheehy scored a lobbed goal for Kerry while Cullen was busy arguing with the referee. Michael O'Hehir described the incident as "the greatest freak of all time" and the goal is number 12 the Top 20 GAA Moments.

Cullen won his all-star awards in the years 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1979. He won two national football league medals with Dublin in 1976 against Derry and again in 1978 against Mayo. He also managed Dublin to National Football League success in 1991 and then took Dublin to the famous and epic four game first round saga against Meath which Dublin eventually lost by a point.

Paddy Cullen was inaccurately linked to the X Case. After a period of time, the vicious rumors became so widespread the he had to appear on the Late Late Show to set the record straight. Paddy appeared as a mentor on Celebrity Bainisteoir (season 2) helping George Hook who was managing Cuala.

External links

• Official Dublin Website

Preceded by Gerry McCaul

Dublin Senior Football Manager 1991-1992

Succeeded by Pat O'Neill