Tommy Lyons

Tommy Lyons is an Irish former Gaelic football player and manager who was born in County Mayo but moved to Dublin at a very young age and still thinks of himself as a Dubliner. His own playing career with the Dublin club Kilmacud Crokes ended early because of a persistent knee injury that needed a screw placed in the joint. He then turned to management, steering Kilmacud Crokes to the All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship on Saint Patrick's Day 1995 and later serving as the club's chairman until 2007. At inter-county level he managed Offaly from 1997 to 1999, winning the 1997 Leinster Senior Football Championship and the 1998 National Football League, and then managed Dublin from 2002 to 2004, winning the 2002 Leinster title in his first year. He was also a regular analyst on RTÉ's The Sunday Game.