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unusual facts about John Flanagan


Kilkenny–Tipperary hurling rivalry

After much discussion and investigation after the Kilkenny game, John Flanagan and Kilkenny's Ollie Walsh both incurred a six-month suspension, which meant that both players missed the championship in 1968, or at least the parts that occurred after the suspensions were announced in July.


Owen Snedden

John Flanagan (another Auckland priest in the same situation as Snedden) became announcers for Vatican Radio, engaged particularly to broadcast weekly lists of Australian and New Zealand prisoners of war.


see also

Don Fish

One award winning television commercial for British Airways featured John Le Mesurier was produced with John Flanagan and won a Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival.