Background
He was born 27 May 1929 in Clonaslee, County Laois, one of two sons of Francis Dunne, insurance agent, and Agnes Dunne (née Foley), schoolteacher.
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Mick Dunne
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Educated at Clonaslee national school and Knockbeg College, County Carlow, he went to work in the etchings library of the Irish Press in 1947, becoming Gaelic games correspondent in 1957. In 1970 he joined RTÉ as the station"s first Gaelic games correspondent, developing the Gaelic Stadium preview programme and after the arrival of a camera unit in 1976, expanded Gaelic Athletic Association television coverage. A fan of the lesser Gaelic games of camogie and handball, he helped devise the televised handball series Top Ace in 1973.
lieutenant was expanded to include Mexican and American players in 1980.
On his retirement he was awarded for special services to handball. Four communications awards presented annually by the Camogie Association are named in his honour.
After his retirement he wrote regular columns for the Irish Independent and Gaelsport magazine. He was contributing editor to High Ball magazine following its establishment by Mike Hogan and Eoghan Corry in 1998, having previously edited Gaelic World.
Dunne married Lilly Fox, from Delvin, County Westmeath in 1956.
They had three daughters, Eileen, Una, and Moira. He died on 11 August 2002.
Achievements
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He was central to the negotiations with sponsors to set up the annual Gaelic Athletic Association All Stars which grew out of the Cuchulainn in the 1960s and were established on an annual basis in 1971. He remained its driving force up to the 1990s, and before his death he was honoured with a special award for his work on the scheme.
Awards
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the Waterford Crystal Handball Award He was central to the negotiations with sponsors to set up the annual GAA All Stars which grew out of the Cuchulainn in the 1960s and were established on an annual basis in 1971. He remained its driving force up to the 1990s, and before his death he was honoured with a special award for his work on the scheme.the Waterford Crystal Handball Award He was central to the negotiations with sponsors to set up the annual GAA All Stars which grew out of the Cuchulainn in the 1960s and were established on an annual basis in 1971. He remained its driving force up to the 1990s, and before his death he was honoured with a special award for his work on the scheme.