Joe Salmon

Peter Joseph "Joe" Salmon (1 April 1930 to 23 July 1991) was an Irish sportsperson who played hurling at various times with his local club, Meelick-Eyrecourt, and played minor hurling with nearby Portumna. Later in his career he switched for a short period to Liam Mellows in Galway and Glen Rovers in Cork because of migration, and in all he collected five county championship medals. He played with the Galway senior inter-county team from 1949 until 1964, having first become prominent with the Galway minor team in the 1940s and lined out in the 1947 All-Ireland minor final, which Tipperary won. His first success at senior level came in 1951, when Galway defeated Wexford and New York in the National League finals to give him a National League medal. In 1953 Galway beat Kilkenny to reach the All-Ireland final, where Cork were the winners. He also lined out with Connacht in the inter-provincial competition but never won a Railway Cup medal.