Bobby Dineen

Bobby Dineen, whose full name was Robert Joseph Dineen, was an Irish hurler and coach, born on 5 January 1919 and died on 11 November 1984. Born in Midleton, County Cork, he played at club level with Midleton and Fermoy and was a member of the Cork senior hurling team. As a student at St. Colman's College in Fermoy he played hurling and Gaelic football and won a South of Ireland schools tennis championship. He won an All-Ireland minor medal with Cork in 1937, joined the Cork junior team in 1938 and the senior team in 1939, a season that ended in defeat by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final, before his studies for the priesthood led him to leave the team in 1940. Ordained in 1944, he taught at St. Colman's, trained its senior team to the 1949 Harty Cup, and later served as curate at Mitchelstown and parish priest in Lisgoold.