Meath's 1967 All-Ireland winning captain Peter Darby has passed away.
The Trim clubman became just the third Meath skipper to lift the Sam Maguire Cup after Brian Smyth (1949) and Peter McDermott (1954) and lined out at corner-back on the team that beat Cork by 1-9 to 0-9 in the All-Ireland final 55 years ago.
Mr Darby was appointed captain of the team for 1967 after no player from Gaeil Colmcille, the 1966 county champions, earned a starting spot.
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He had also played in the All-Ireland final the previous year when Meath lost out to Galway, who completed three-in-a-row. He won the first of his three Leinster senior medals in 1964.
A noted dual player, he also lined out for the county hurlers and won a National Hurling League Division Two title in 1962.
He captained Trim to the 1962 Meath SFC, his only county title in football, though he won a further five in hurling.
Mr Darby was twice honoured with a Cu Chulainn award, a pre-cursor to the All Stars which ran from 1963 to ‘67, having been selected at left corner-back in 1964 and ‘66.
Another notable footballing achievement of his was touring Australia with the Meath team in 1968, a ground-breaking venture which paved the way for the introduction of the Compromise (later International) Rules series in 1984.
He later served as a Meath selector and was vice-chairman of the county board.
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