Andy Fleming (Irish sportsman)

Andrew Fleming (23 April 1916 – 27 March 2011) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. At club level he played for Mount Sion and Stradbally, winning a combined total of 11 championship medals in both codes, and was the last surviving member of the Waterford senior hurling team that won the 1948 All-Ireland Championship.[1]

Andy Fleming
Personal information
Irish name Aindrias Pléimeann
Sport Hurling
Position Right corner-back
Born 23 April 1916
Belmont, County Offaly, Ireland
Died 27 March 2011 (aged 94)
Ferrybank, County Waterford, Ireland
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Occupation CIÉ employee
Club(s)
Years Club
 Mount Sion
Stradbally
Club titles
  Football Hurling
Waterford titles 5 6
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1939-1951
 Waterford
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 1
All-Irelands 1

Widely regarded as one of Waterford's great dual players, Fleming won six Waterford Hurling Championship medals with Mount Sion as well as five consecutive Waterford Football Championship medals with Stradbally.

Fleming made his first appearance for the Waterford senior hurling team during the 1939 Munster Championship and enjoyed his greatest successes as a defender over the following decade. In 1948 he won his only All-Ireland Championship after a defeat of Dublin in the final, having earlier won a Munster Championship title. Fleming was later selected on the Waterford Hurling Teams of the Century and Millennium.[2]

Honours
Mount Sion
Stardbally
Waterford
Munster
  • Railway Cup (7): 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1951

References
  1. "Andy Fleming". Hogan Stand. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  2. "'The bedroom was in Kilkenny, the kitchen in Waterford'". Irish Examiner. 6 September 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
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