Tim Sweeney (hurler)

Tim Sweeney was an Irish hurler who lived from 1929 until 2018, played club hurling with Fohenagh and was a member of the Galway senior inter-county team between 1949 and 1963. He played in the All-Ireland finals of 1955, at corner forward, and 1958, and he captained Galway to the county's sole victory in the Munster Hurling Championship when they beat Clare by 2-13 to 0-7 in 1961, scoring six points himself. He was a member of the Galway team that won the Oireachtas title in 1958. With Fohenagh he won back-to-back county titles in 1959 and 1960 and played in the 1963 county final, which was lost to Turloughmore.