Tommy McGuinness

Tommy The Boiler McGuinness, who lived from 1909 until 1987, was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Meath county team. He had several successes in inter-county football from around 1929 to the early 1940s, and when he first broke onto the Meath team he typically played at midfield or centre forward. He played for a number of clubs, winning several county titles, including with Navan Gaels and later with Kilmessan. A piece on HoganStand.com states that one or two gaps in his record arose from several clashes with officialdom, which meant that he was omitted from Meath squads from time to time, including the National Football League success of 1933. In the 1930 Leinster final against Kildare he was played at full-forward in a game that Meath drew, and Meath lost the replay.