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Eighteen years after being memorably compared to a loaf of bread by an exasperated Páidà Ó Sé, Alan Mangan is still playing football at the age of 43... He was turning 25 in June, 2004, so it took time to make it as a county footballer... 'I am 43 now. Not good enough to be on the starting team
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Malachy's but I'm still plugging away'... One last thing, the nickname, Budda? It derives from his father's physical resemblance to the founder of Buddhism. The 'h' has been dropped.
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knocked him over the sideline during the drawn game between the teams. Mangan then scored four points from play in
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final. He won three
Westmeath SHC medals while playing with his club, the first in 2004, adding another in 2013.
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in a draw and then a replay in the 2003 championship before starting him against
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Mangan is married to
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succeeded
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but started him in the second game of the competition, against
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as a 16-year-old, at which age he played as a goalkeeper in a
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Mangan also played football for the St
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686:for Glennon
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534:(1st title)
425:16 February
167:Cusack Park
88:dual player
84:Alan Mangan
22:Alan Mangan
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891:for Mangan
680:for Conway
674:for Wilson
283:References
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171:Ger Heavin
881:Subs used
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858:A. Mangan
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740:Westmeath
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186:Monaghan
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