Des Dillon (hurler)

Des Dillon, born Desmond Dillon, who lived from 1926 to 24 November 1964, was an Irish hurler and handballer from Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, who played as a centre-forward for the Offaly, Dublin and Clare senior teams. He first played hurling at the Cistercian College, Roscrea, joined the Offaly senior team at twenty and made his senior debut in the 1946 championship, enjoying a sporadic career over the next decade that brought one Oireachtas medal and an All-Ireland runner-up finish as a non-playing substitute. He represented the Combined Universities, Munster and Leinster in the inter-provincial series, winning one Railway Cup medal in 1955. At club level he won two championship medals with Birr and a third with University College Dublin, with whom he also won four Fitzgibbon Cup medals. He retired after the 1955 Oireachtas Championship and also earned renown as a handballer, winning Munster medals and representing Ireland at the World Handball Championships.