Dinny Lowry

Denis "Dinny" Lowry (30 November 1934 – 8 October 2025) was an Irish soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He spent seventeen years at St Patrick's Athletic, winning two League of Ireland titles (back to back), two FAI Cups, the League of Ireland Shield, two Dublin City Cups, three LFA President's Cups and an FAI Intermediate Cup.

Lowry spent two seasons at Bohemians, where he won another FAI Cup in 1970, and a further two seasons with Sligo Rovers before retiring from football in 1973.

He represented his league in the League of Ireland XI on a regular basis and went on to win one cap for the Republic of Ireland senior team against Austria in 1962.

Club career

Early career Born in Dublin in 1934, Lowry lined out with St Patrick's Athletic's nursery club Bulfin United as a young teenager alongside future Saints' team-mates Fergie Crawford and Christy Fitzgerald. He won both schoolboy and youth international honours for Ireland before joining the senior ranks at St Patrick's Athletic.

St Patrick's Athletic Having joined from Bulfin United, Lowry made his St Patrick's Athletic debut in 1952 after initially playing mainly with the club's B team where he won the FAI Intermediate Cup in 1952–53. Lowry went on to become one of the most decorated players in St Pat's history, with two League of Ireland titles (1954–55 & 1955–56, two FAI Cup wins (1959 and 1961) and a League of Ireland Shield title (1959–60) to his name, along with six more winners medals in the Dublin City Cup, LFA President's Cup and FAI Intermediate Cup. Having impressed while playing for the League of Ireland XI side in the 1950s, offers were made to sign Lowry from Everton and Sheffield United but Lowry remained at his beloved St Pat's, happy to earn the extra fiver or tenner a week to supplement his income from his other job at the Dublin Corporation. After retiring from playing, Lowry remained involved in football as a goalkeeping coach with Shamrock Rovers for a few years.

Lowry died on 8 October 2025, at the age of 90.

Honours St Patrick's Athletic League of Ireland: 1954–55, 1955–56 FAI Cup: 1959, 1961 League of Ireland Shield: 1959–60 Dublin City Cup: 1953–54, 1955–56 LFA President's Cup: 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56 FAI Intermediate Cup: 1952–53

Bohemians FAI Cup: 1970

Individual PFAI Merit Award: 1995 St Patrick's Athletic Harry Boland Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2010