page_title: Benny Gaughran (Gaelic footballer)
section_title: Civil Service (Dublin)
hierarchical_section_title: Benny Gaughran (Gaelic footballer) / Playing career / College, Combined Universities & Club career / Civil Service (Dublin)
caption_attribution_description: English: Benny Gaughran playing for UCD
context_page_description: Bernard Laurence Gaughran, better known as Benny Gaughran is a solicitor and Gaelic footballer. He played Gaelic football at a senior level in four different decades starting in the 1960s with Clan na Gael, UCD, Civil Service and St Sylvesters GAA clubs and was a member of the Louth Minor & Senior inter-county teams from the 1960s until the 1980s and the Dublin Over 40s team in the 1990s. He received several All Stars nominations, and won an All-Ireland Club medal with UCD, three Dublin Championship medals, a National League medal, a Railway Cup medal, a Sigerson’s medal and many other honours. He was also selected on numerous occasions for the combined universities’ teams and the Leinster team.
  His father, also called Benny Gaughran, was a professional soccer player during the 1930s and played for Bohemians, Celtic, Southampton, Sunderland, Rochdale and Dundalk.
context_section_description: Within weeks of this, he left UCD and joined Civil Service in 1974 and won his third Dublin Senior Football Championship title with them in 1980.
  At the age of 46, in his fourth different decade of senior football, he was still playing Dublin Senior Football Championship football and scored a vital goal to secure victory against Whitehall Colmcille in a replay at Parnell Park.
caption: Benny playing for UCD
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