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Place of Birth: Navan, Leinster, Ireland
About Joe Cassells
- Joe Cassells (born 10 October 1954) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer.
- His league and championship career with the Meath senior team spanned sixteen seasons from 1974 to 1990.Born in Navan, County Meath, Cassells first excelled as a Gaelic footballer at club level with Navan O'Mahony's.
- In a club career that spanned three decades he won a record eight county senior championship medals.
- Cassells also won two county senior championship medals as a hurler. Cassells made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected for the Meath minor team.
- He enjoyed one championship season with the minor team, ending the year as a Leinster medal winner.
- Cassells subsequently joined the Meath under-21 team, however, he enjoyed little success in this grade.
- He made his debut with the Meath senior team during the 1974 championship.
- Over the course of the next sixteen years, Cassells won back-to-back All-Ireland medals, beginning in 1987 before collecting a second as captain of the team in 1988.
- He also won four Leinster medals and two National Football League medals.
- Cassells played his last game for Meath in September 1990. As a regular member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Cassells won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1985 and 1986. In retirement from playing, Cassells became involved in team management and coaching.
- Cassells is the younger brother of trade union leader Peter Cassells.
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