Joey Donnelly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJoey Donnelly
Irish footballer
Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1910
Place of Birth: Dundalk, Leinster, Ireland
Date of Death: 29-Feb-1992
Profession: association football player
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Joey Donnelly
- Joey Donnelly (October 1, 1909 – February 29, 1992) was a Republic of Ireland soccer international. Donnelly was a creative midfielder and was capped ten times for the Republic of Ireland at senior level, scoring four goals.
- He scored on his international debut in a 4–2 home defeat to Hungary in December 1934.
- He participated in the historic Irish 5-2 win against Hitler's Germany in 1936, scoring a goal.
- He is considered one of the greatest Irish football players of all time, having a place in the Irish Hall of Fame since 1992 after his death. In his 'Book of Irish Goalscorers' Sean Ryan described Joey's international career as follows; "Two games stand out, both at Dalymount Park.
- In March 1936 he celebrated St Patrick's Day with a win over Switzerland and played a crucial role in that success.
- The Irish Independent reported: 'Donnelly acted as a link between the halves and the forwards.
- Playing well behind his front-line colleague, he secured many Swiss clearances and in this way kept up or developed numerous home attacks'.
- Seven months later he played one of his greatest games when, with Paddy Moore, he took the German defence apart to inspire Ireland to a tremendous 5-2 win". His last representative appearance came in 1938 when he was on the League of Ireland team defeated 3-1 the Irish League, when his performance drew the following rapturous assessment from the Irish News; 'His ball control and his happy knack of filling the inside left, left-half and sometimes the inside-right berth, reminded me of Bryn Jones, Wolves International.
- I haven't seen a better inside-forward display in years'. Donnelly's was inducted into the Irish Hall of Fame in 1992.
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