Joe Waldron

Joe Waldron
Personal information
Irish name	Seosamh de Bhaldraithe
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Left corner-back
Born	Milltown, County Galway
Club(s)
Years	Club
1968-1984 ; 1973-1974	Milltown ; UCD
Club titles
Galway titles	2
All-Ireland Titles	1
Colleges(s)
Years	College
	UCD
College titles
Sigerson titles	2
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1970s	Galway
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	3

Joe Waldron (born 1951 in Milltown, County Galway) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Milltown and was a member of the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1970s.

In 1972, Waldron captained Galway to win their first All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship when they defeated Kerry in the final. He lost two consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals with Galway after being beaten by Cork in 1973 and Dublin the following year in 1974. He was a member of both of Milltown's Galway Senior Football Championship winning teams in 1971 and 1981, playing alongside his brother John in both finals.^[1]

Waldron was also a part of the successful UCD team of the early 1970s. He won two Sigerson Cups with the side in the 1972/73 and 1973/74 seasons. This was the same all-conquering University team that won the Dublin Senior Football Championship, Leinster Senior Club Football Championship and All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship in the 1973/74 season.

On St. Patrick's Day, 1973, Waldron played on the Combined Universities football team that defeated his own native Connacht in the Railway Cup final, the only Universities team to win the Inter-Provincial Championship in football or hurling.