Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Riobeard Ó Beig | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Centre-back | ||
Born |
Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland | 25 February 1911||
Died |
7 May 1993 Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland | (aged 82)||
Occupation | Fisherman | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Skerries Harps Wolfe Tones | |||
Club titles | |||
Galway titles | 2 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1934; 1942 1935-1941 |
Dublin Galway | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Connacht titles | 3 | ||
Leinster titles | 2 | ||
All-Irelands | 2 | ||
NFL | 1 |
Robert Beggs (25 February 1911 – 7 May 1993) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club sides Skerries Harps and Wolfe Tones and at inter-county level with the Dublin and Galway senior football teams.[1]
Beggs first came to prominence as a Gaelic footballer on the Dublin senior team that lost the 1934 All-Ireland final to Galway.[2] A short time after this defeat, he took up employment in Galway and transferred his football allegiance. Beggs's seven seasons with the Galway senior team yielded a National League title, three Connacht Championship medals and All-Ireland success after a defeat of Kerry in the 1938 final. He also enjoyed club success with the Wolfe Tones club[3] and won two County Championship titles. After returning to Dublin, Beggs once again lined out with his native county and claimed a second All-Ireland winners' medal in 1942 at the expense of his former team.[4][5] He also secured Railway Cup medals with both Leinster and Connacht.
Born in Skerries, County Dublin, Beggs spent his entire adult life working as a fisherman in his hometown and later in Claddagh, County Galway after moving for work before returning to Skerries.[6] His Galway-born son, Brian Beggs, won an All-Ireland Minor Championship title with Dublin in 1958. Beggs died in Beaumont Hospital on 7 May 1993 after suffering a stroke.