Tommy Joe Gilmore

Tommy Joe Gilmore is a footballer from County Galway, Ireland, who wore the number 6 jersey of Galway throughout the 1970s. Born in the village of Cortoon just outside Tuam, he spent almost twenty years from 1968 onwards in the senior ranks of the local Cortoon Shamrocks. He was most noted as a centre half-back, though he played in a variety of positions from full back to full forward, and after a county minor season in 1967 and two years at under-21 he broke into the Galway senior team. He lost three All-Ireland senior football finals, to Offaly, Cork and Dublin in 1971, 1973 and 1974, won All-Star awards at centre half-back in 1972 and 1973, and appeared in four Railway Cup finals, losing all four.