Séamus Ó Braonáin

Séamus Ó Braonáin, also known as Jimmy Brennan, was an Irish sportsman and public servant who lived from 1881 to 1970. In Gaelic games he won four All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals with the Dublin county team, in 1902, 1906, 1907 and 1908, along with five Leinster medals, two Dublin championships and a Dublin senior league title, playing hurling and football for the Keatings club. He is remembered as a founding father of camogie, the women's field sport based on hurling: in 1904 he refereed the first practice match at the Thatch in Drumcondra and helped draw up the first rules, which stayed largely unchanged until 1999. He also played club cricket, was a founder member of Donabate golf club and founded An Golf-Chumann Gaedhealach in 1940. Outside sport he served as the third Director General of Radio Éireann, from 1940 to 1947.