Former Tánaiste and Cavan All-Ireland medal winner John Wilson has passed away.
Born at Callanagh, Kilcogy, Co Cavan in 1923, John Wilson won four Leinster Championship medals with St Mel's College in Longford.
His intercounty career with his native Cavan delivered five Ulster Championship medals in the forties and a national league medal in 1948.
He also won two All-Ireland medals with the county, the second coming in the Polo Grounds All-Ireland in New York in 1947 when the Breffni men defeated Kerry.
A teacher by profession, he was first elected as a Fianna Fáil TD in 1973 and his ministerial posts included Education, Posts and Telegraphs, Communications, Marine and Defence as well as time served as Tánaiste in the early 1990s.
GAA President Nickey Brennan described Mr Wilson as an outstanding GAA man, politician and person and said that throughout his political career he had remained a great friend of the GAA and would be remembered with fondness by all in the GAA family.
