42 No Player Name Home County Home Club 1 Mark Traynor (Selector) Antrim Loughgiel Shamrocks 2 Tomas Redmond (Chairman) Wexford Duffry Rovers 3 Fergus McMahon (Manager) Meath Kildalkey 4 Patrick Baker Clare Newmarket-on-Fergus 5 Niall Higgins Antrim Con Magees, Glenravel 6 Kevin McAllister Antrim Dunloy 7 Kevin Martin McMullan Antrim Cushendall 8 Seanin Traynor Antrim Loughgiel Shamrocks 9 Dennis O'Regan Carlow Naomh Eoin 10 Ruairi Costello Galway Kilnadeema-Leitrim 11 Laurence Costello Galway St. Gabriel’s 12 Johnathan Hanley Galway Craughwell 13 Noreen Hanley Galway Craughwell 14 Brendan Gerard Neylan Galway Clarinbridge 15 Colin Martin Stankard Galway Clarinbridge 16 Paul Michael Mullins Kilkenny Erin’s Own, Castlecomer 17 John Paul Walsh Laois Ballinakill 18 Enda Fahy Roscommon Roscommon Gaels 19 Aiden Joseph Ryan Tipperary Moycarkey-Borris 20 Paul Horkan Waterford Fourmilewater 21 Mark Conroy Westmeath Raharney 22 Martin Williams Westmeath O’Loughlin Gaels 23 Laura Berrie Wexford Duffry Rovers 24 Florence Pauline Treacy Wexford Duffry Rovers 25 John Treacy Wexford Duffry Rovers The Robert Emmett’s hurling club was founded in 1948 in Bow Palais in East London on the 20th of March, with the football club initiated less than six months later. The inaugural AGM of the Robert Emmett’s Hurling and Football Club on 13th February 1949 saw the election of Stephen Fitzgerald as its first football captain. The club’s first fixture was against Thomas McCurtains on Sunday the 16th of May at the back of Wanstead flats. Many fine men came through the Robert Emmett’s hands, notably Bill Horgan of Cork, who played centre back on their first ever county championship-winning team back in 1951. Bill later became chairman of Robert Emmett’s
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