The Latton O'Rahilly's club used the occasion of their annual awards night last weekend to make a special presentation to one of their most esteemed and highly respected members, Sean Og Flood, who has done trojan work behind the scenes with the club since he joined them in the early 1980s.

At that stage, though, Sean Og Flood was already a household name and is still revered in his native County of Louth, as the goalkeeper on the Louth All Ireland winning team of 1957.

As a young man he played with the Young Irelands club in Dundalk, whom he represented at minor level in 1950, winning a North Louth minor football championship medal and then graduated to the senior club team in 1953 and 2 years later, was drafted onto the County panel winning Leinster and All Ireland championship medals in 1957.

He represented the province in the Railway Cup for 3 years and won a Railway Cup medal in 1959 before moving to Cavan as a Liaison Officer with the ESB during the rural electrification programme.

In Cavan, he transferred to the Ballinagh club and then declared for the County, whom he represented in the years 1961 to 1964, during which time he won an Ulster Junior football championship medal, a McKenna Cup medal and an Ulster senior championship medal in 1962.

He moved back to Dundalk in 1969 and became involved with trying to reinvigorate the fading Young Irelands club, a project that was only partially successful at that time. His work with the ESB then brought him to Monaghan in the early 80s and he threw in his lot with Latton.

His playing days at this stage had passed but he became deeply involved in club administration, doing trojan work at that time as chairman of the Finance Committee as the club embarked on a major development project at O'Rahilly Park.

At his presentation he was cited for his massive idealism and vision and how he promoted some major fund raising activities including one of the 1st £100 per ticket draws in 1984/85 and it was something of a unique achievement in May 1986 when the new O'Rahilly Park and Community Centre were officially opened and the club was able to announce that due to a large extent to the input of Sean Og Flood that the entire facilities were debt free.

As well as working on those aspects of club affairs, he became part of the team management set up in the club and was involved when Latton won the Junior double in 1989 and the Hackett Cup in 1990 and later served as manager of the senior team.

Sean Og was predeceased by his wife Maura, (nee Duffy) in 2009 and at this present time is an Honorary President of the O'Rahilly's and a truly great gael.

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