Career
From Ballylanders in County Limerick, he was elected General Secretary of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1898 and is the only man to have ever held the two top positions within the Association. An athlete in the 1880s, Dineen was the fastest Irish sprinter of his day. He is also noted as the man who purchased a site on Jones Road in 1908 before donating it to the Gaelic Athletic Association for free in 1913, the site now of Croke Park.
Dineen held the ground in trust for the Gaelic Athletic Association, which at the time was not able to purchase the land itself.
Between 1908 and 1910 he oversaw development of the ground, paying for the improvements himself. In 2006, Hill 16 was renamed Dineen/Hill 16 in his honour.
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