Séamus Gardiner (1894 – 10 January 1976), was the 14th president of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1943–1946).
[1] Born in Clare, he played football for UCD while studying there, he trained to be a national school teacher in De La Salle College, Waterford.
[4] Also during Gardiner's presidency, the Minister of Defence opened up the army to sports other than Gaelic Games, which Gardiner called "a retrograde step", and that the GAA were "entitled to the same treatment for Gaelic games as they had for the past 20 years".
[5] Two years after his death, in 1978 the Séamus Gardiner Memorial Park was renamed in his honour.
[3] Gardiner's great-granddaughters, Emer Lucey and Ciara Lucey, played senior camogie for Ballyboden St Enda's and Dublin.