Bernard Flynn

For the American attorney, see Bernard J. Flynn.

Bernard Flynn

Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Left corner-forward
Born	Beamore, County Meath, Ireland
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
	St Colmcille's St Joseph's (Laois) Mullingar Shamrocks (Westmeath)
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1984-1994	Meath
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	5
All-Irelands	2
All Stars	2

Bernard Flynn (born 26 June 1965) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Meath county team. As a teenager he attended secondary school in St Mary's of Drogheda. He enjoyed success play inter-county football in the 1980s and early 1990s on the Meath teams managed by Sean Boylan. For Meath he usually played at corner forward. He played club football for St Colmcille's of East Meath up to the 1991 season when he moved to St Joseph's (Laois) and then to Mullingar Shamrocks (Westmeath).

During his playing career he won two Senior All Ireland medals (1987 and 1988) as well as five Leinster medals, three National League Medals and a Centenary Cup Medal (a competition played to celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the GAA). He won two All Star awards as well.

When playing for Meath he was part of a Full Forward line of Colm O'Rourke, Brian Stafford and himself, widely regarded as one of the best Full forward lines of all time.

He has worked as a GAA pundit for RTÉ.

Flynn managed Mullingar Shamrocks and, in January 2021, he became manager of the Meath under-20 county team.

Career statistics

Team	Season	Leinster		All-Ireland		Total
		Apps	Score	Apps	Score	Apps	Score
Meath	1984	2	0-01	0	0-00	2	0-01
	1985	2	0-03	0	0-00	2	0-03
	1986	3	0-05	1	0-05	4	0-10
	1987	3	0-03	2	0-05	5	0-08
	1988	3	0-10	3	0-01	6	0-11
	1989	2	0-06	0	0-00	2	0-06
	1990	3	2-07	2	2-03	5	4-10
	1991	8	2-14	2	0-07	10	2-21
	1992	1	0-00	0	0-00	1	0-00
	1993	0	0-00	0	0-00	0	0-00
	1994	3	0-06	0	0-00	3	0-06
Total		30	4-55	10	2-21	40	6-76

External links

• Official Meath Website