Jimmy Gray (GAA)

James J. Gray (14 November 1929 to 28 March 2023) was an Irish sportsman and Gaelic Athletic Association administrator from Dublin who played both hurling and Gaelic football. He played with the C. J. Kickhams club until 1955, when he became a founding member of Na Fianna, and he was on the Dublin senior inter-county teams in both codes throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He was the goalkeeper on the Dublin senior hurling team that lost to Tipperary in the 1961 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final. Gray later served as a referee and as a GAA administrator. He was chairman of the Dublin County Board from 1970 to 1981, in which role he was instrumental in appointing Kevin Heffernan as manager of the Dublin senior football team in 1973, and chairman of the Leinster Council from 1990 to 1993. He managed the Dublin senior hurling team from 1993 to 1996 and held the honorary post of President of Dublin GAA.