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Supreme courtship joey malone12/19/2023 The addition of Paul Newe and Michael O’Connor gave Turlough O’Connor a 1987-88 15-man squad that is many supporters’ choice as the best ever Dundalk panel-brimful of class, experience and leadership-and that delivered the club’s second League-Cup Double. For Joey, and for Dundalk, glory was just round the corner. However, it was Rover’s year and in Dermot Keely’s first term as manager they completed the League-Cup double with Dundalk taking the runners up mementos in each competition. There was the disappointment of a loss in the final of the League Cup to Galway United in January but a year later there was compensation in the same competition when Shamrock Rovers were turned over to deliver Turlough O’Connor’s first Dundalk trophy. In December 1985 he was the recipient of the Soccer Writers’ Player of the Month Award and at season’s end he was Dundalk supporters’ choice for Player of the Year. Joining a batch of ex-Athlone and ex-Bohs at Oriel Park, he was again appointed captain and it didn’t take long before the honours started to arrive. One of the few came in the 1982-83 year with a victory in the Leinster Cup against Drogheda, filling a six year gap since Pats previous trophy win.Īfter spending the tail end of the 1983-84 year at Home Farm, his former Bohemians team mate, Turlough O’Connor, recruited him to go to Athlone for the 1984-85 season and then to join him again at Dundalk in the following season. Operating either as sweeper or at midfield, he was a first team regular at Richmond Park for five seasons, missing very few games but Pats at this stage struggled to get into the top half of the table and there were very few honours for Joey, sweeper and team captain. He was a member of the Irish Under 21 squad that played in the 1978 Toulon tournament and made starts in all four games.īut with just one league appearance in the following season-Manager Billy Young having decided that Padraig O’Connor was ahead of Joey in the pecking order-it was time to move on and he ended up with St Patrick’s Athletic under Charlie Walker. Starting with St Kevin’s Boys in North Dublin, Joey Malone was just seventeen when he joined Bohemians in the 1976-77 season and made his first team debut in the title-winning 1977-78 year, while understudy to Pat Byrne.
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