Andrew Fleming (1916[1] – 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]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Aindrias Pléimeann | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Right corner-back | ||
| Born |
1916 Belmont, County Offaly, Ireland | ||
| Died |
27 March 2011 (aged 94) Ferrybank, County Waterford, Ireland | ||
| 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 | ||
Playing as a dual player during the 1940s, 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 had his greatest successes as a defender over the following decade. In 1948, he won his only All-Ireland Championship after a win over 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
edit- Mount Sion
- Waterford Senior Hurling Championship (6): 1939, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1949
- Waterford Junior Football Championship (1): 1939
- Stardbally
- Waterford Senior Football Championship (5): 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944
- Waterford
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1948 (c)
- Munster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1948 (c)
- Munster
- Railway Cup (7): 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1951
References
edit- ^ a b "Andy Fleming". Hogan Stand. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "'The bedroom was in Kilkenny, the kitchen in Waterford'". Irish Examiner. 6 September 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2018.