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Danny, The Champion…
ejiggers, it’s hard to keep up with the Hattons and their record-breaking achievements and big shiny awards.

Dan with Danny & Jimmy
It doesn’t help, of course, that there’s about 4,327 of the feckers around here.
Give or take.
Then again, that most of them are here because of brothers Danny and Jimmy Hatton means all that over-achieving makes quite a lot of sense.
We spoke with the 86-year-old Jimmy last June, reminiscing about his time as one of the GAA’s most respected – and feared – referees of the 1960s and ’70s. And the man has eight All Ireland medals to prove it.
And then there’s his kid brother, 84-year-old Danny, who has just been recognised by Wicklow GAA with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication, inspiration and perspiration to sport over the past – wait for it – 7 decades.
Or 68 years, if you’re still using the old money.
Having first started kicking around a football at the age of 12 for Greystones CBS, Danny would go on to play for three clubs through his teenage years, lining out for Newtown as a juvenile and winning – alongside Jimmy – a Senior county title with his native Kilcoole when he was just 17.

Dan, Dan, Dan & Dan
In the blink of an eye – and having settled down with the apple of his eye, Marie, in Killincarrig – Danny was soon coaching not his only children but hundreds of others at Greystones’ Éire Ă“g club, where he would go on to become President before handing in his boots and his badge at the tender age of 80.
“This award came as a real surpise,” says Danny when we swung by his doorstep this afternoon. “Being involved with Éire Ă“g and the other clubs throughout all these years, it was just part of my everyday life.

Danny & Marie Jan 2021
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Just some of the comments from our social media…
Johanna Finnegan
Congratulations .
Mary Molloy
Well Deserved Mr. Hatton
Paula Gilbert
Congratulations Danny. Such a well deserved accolade for a lovely man xx
Ann Stewart
Well deserved
Felicity O’Dowd
Congratulations. Delighted for you and your family
Pauline Mitchell
Congratulations
Kristine Campbell
Well deserved. Congratulations Danny
Caroline O Neill
Congratulations
Michelle McGeever
Congratulations, Danny.
Sarahj Byrne
Well deserved Danny
Evelyn Cawley
Great achievement and well deserved! Congratulations
Louis O’meara
Congrats Danny
Siobhan Byrne
Congratulations
Anne-Marie Hatton
Love that photo of the generations of Daniels, certainly a great moment for Dad
Peter Kelly
Congratulations Danny
Well deserved
Mary Philpott
Well deserved tribute
Laura Mitchell Geraghty
Super stuff Danny… congrats!
Carmel Smullen
Huge congrats uncle Danny..x
Joanna Campbell
Gosh well done , remember Mr Hatton so well and his brother..
Anne-Marie Hatton
Emer Mooney Orla Mooney honorary grandchildren
Bernie Campbell
Congrats Mr Hatton.
Josie Whelan
Congrats Mr Hutton well deserved
Tom Sheehy
Great stuff Danny…. congratulations
Mary Lawless
Congratulations
June Kelly
So well deserved to such a wonderful kind jolly humble man !!