Cyril Dunne

Cyril Dunne, who lived from 1941 to 5 December 2024, was an Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler and manager who played with St Grellan's of Ballinasloe and Milltown and for the Galway senior teams as a dual player. The son of John Tull Dunne, who won All-Ireland football medals with Galway in 1934 and 1938, he came through the Galway minor and junior teams and won four successive Connacht Senior Football Championship medals from 1963, playing in four successive All-Ireland finals and winning in 1964, 1965 and 1966 on a team managed by his father. He also won a National League medal in 1965 and a Railway Cup medal with Connacht, and retired from inter-county play in March 1971. He later managed the Galway senior footballers between 1984 and 1986.