Tom Dillon (Gaelic footballer)

Thomas Dillon, who lived from 1926 until 18 June 2019, was an Irish Gaelic footballer who predominantly played for the Galway Championship club Ahascragh and played for the Galway senior football team for ten seasons, usually as a centre-back before ending his career at left corner-back. He began at club level with Ahascragh, joined the Westerns club while working in Dublin and won a Dublin Senior League title with it, later lined out with Ballinasloe in the Galway Senior Championship, and returned to Ahascragh, where he served as club president. At inter-county level he was part of the Galway junior team that won the Connacht Junior Football Championship in 1948, and he joined the Galway senior team for the 1948 season, playing in a number of National League and Championship games until his last in 1958.