John Cummins (Gaelic footballer)

John Cummins, born in 1948, is an Irish Gaelic football manager who earlier played as a centre-forward for the Tipperary county team. A native of Ardfinnan in County Tipperary, he joined the county's minor side at sixteen and then moved through the under-21 and junior teams before making his senior championship debut in 1969. He was a key member of the Tipperary senior panel for close to ten years, though the county won little silverware in that period, and he retired from inter-county football after the 1978 championship. At club level he won two championship medals with Ardfinnan. After his playing days he stayed in the game as a selector, coach and manager with the Tipperary minor and under-21 football teams over many years. His son Brendan went on to a long career as a dual player with Tipperary and is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurling goalkeepers of all time.