Tommy Ring

Thomas O. Ring (1939 to 1 July 2020), known as Tommy Ring, was an Irish hurler who played for a number of clubs, including Castlepollard and Kilmacud Crokes, and was a long-time member of the Westmeath senior hurling team. Born in Castlepollard to a Cork-born father and a Louth-born mother, he joined the Westmeath minor team in 1954 and was promoted to the senior team as goalkeeper at eighteen. He later switched to midfield and forward, won National League Division 2 titles in 1961 and 1964 and became one of the top marksmen of the 1960s and early 1970s. His inter-county career ended in 1972, and with Kilmacud Crokes he won Dublin county senior championship medals in 1974 and 1976. He is regarded as one of Westmeath's greatest-ever hurlers and was selected at right wing-forward on the Westmeath Hurling Team of the Millennium.