Tom Dillon (Gaelic footballer)

Thomas Dillon (1926 – 18 June 2019) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who predominantly played for Galway Championship club Ahascragh.

He played for the Galway senior football team for ten seasons.

Dillon later lined out with Ballinasloe in the Galway Senior Championship before returning to Ahascragh where he served as club president.

From his debut, Dillon played as a centre-back and later as a corner-back and made a number of National League and Championship appearances in a career that ended with his last game in the 1958 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

[citation needed] At inter-provincial level, Dillon was selected to play in a number of championship campaigns with Connacht and won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1957 and 1958.