Jimmy Hatton

Jimmy Hatton, formally James Hatton (14 August 1934 to 28 February 2023), was an Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler and referee from County Wicklow. He played Gaelic football and hurling as a schoolboy with Kilcoole NS and Greystones CBS and went on to a long senior career with the Kilcoole club, winning a Wicklow Senior Football Championship title in 1954 and lining out in several Wicklow senior hurling finals. For about a decade he was a dual player with the Wicklow senior teams, winning an O'Byrne Cup title in 1957 and a Leinster Junior Hurling Championship medal in 1964. He began refereeing at club level in 1957 and went on to referee eleven All-Ireland finals at club and inter-county level in both hurling and football, eight of them at senior level, including both senior finals of 1966 and the first All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship final in 1971.