Joe Waldron

Joe Waldron (born 1951 in Milltown, County Galway) is an Irish former sportsman who played Gaelic football with his local club Milltown and was a member of the Galway senior team in the 1970s. In 1972 he captained Galway to their first All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship, beating Kerry in the final. He lost two consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals with Galway, to Cork in 1973 and to Dublin in 1974, and he was on the Milltown teams that won the Galway Senior Football Championship in 1971 and 1981, playing alongside his brother John in both finals. At UCD he won the Sigerson Cup in 1972 and 1973 in the side that went on to win the Dublin, Leinster club and All-Ireland club titles in 1973 and 1974, and in 1973 he played for the Combined Universities team that beat Connacht in the Railway Cup final. He later served as a Galway selector in the early 1990s under John Tobin.