Given the question: Facts: - sport: gaelic football - county: mayo - icposition: midfield - province: connacht - birth date: 1928 - nfl: 2 - code: football - club: castlebar mitchels - name: padraig carney - birth place: swinford , county mayo , ireland - icprovince: 4 - counties: mayo - icyears: 1946-1954 - occupation: doctor - irish: padraig O cearnaigh - icallireland: 2 - clcounty: 2 - nickname: the flying doctor - clyears: 1940s-1950s Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of padraig carney .
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padraig carney -lrb- born 1927 -rrb- is a former gaelic footballer who played as a centre-forward for the mayo senior team .carney first played for the senior team while he was still a minor in the 1946 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the national league final in 1954 .during that time he won two all-ireland medals , four connacht medals and two national league medals .carney also had the distinction of being the first player to score a goal from a penalty in an all-ireland final .carney played club football with a range of clubs , however , it was with castlebar mitchels that he won two county championship medals .