Mick Arrigan
Michael Arrigan (12 November 1899 - 20 February 1958) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. His championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned six years from 1920 to 1926.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Mícheál Ó hArgáin | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Born |
12 November 1899 Deerpark, County Tipperary, Ireland | ||
| Died |
20 February 1958 (aged 58) Abbeyside, County Waterford, Ireland | ||
| Occupation | Farmer | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Grangemockler | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Tipperary titles | 0 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
1920-1926 | Tipperary | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 2 | ||
| All-Irelands | 1 | ||
Arrigan made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he was selected for the Tipperary senior team. He made his debut during the 1920 championship. The highlight of his inter-county career came in his debut season when he won an All-Ireland medal. Arrigan also won two Munster medals. In later years he was a Gaelic teacher at Saint Augustine's College, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He had a great love of the language and delighted in extending his pupils' vocabulary, with long lists of synonyms. They would try to get him off curriculum by asking "Tell us about Bloody Sunday, sir," a trick he soon learned to sidestep.
Honours
- Tipperary
References
- Hahesy, Aileen (26 August 2016). "Tipp football legend Mick Arrigan would have been proud of today's team". The Nationalist. Retrieved 19 July 2017.