Tommy_O'Connell_(Kilkenny_hurler)

Tommy O'Connell (Kilkenny hurler)

Tommy O'Connell (Kilkenny hurler)

Irish hurler (1939–2019)

Thomas O'Connell (20 October 1939 – 16 May 2019) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a left corner-forward for the Kilkenny senior team.[1][2]

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O'Connell made his first appearance for the team during the 1959 championship and was a semi-regular member of the starting fifteen for the following seven seasons. During that time he won one Leinster winners' medal. He ended up as an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion, after scoring a hat-trick of goals in the final.[3]

At club level O'Connell was a two-time county club championship medalist with Fenians.

References

  1. [1]
    "Three goals in All-Ireland but Tommy never got gold". Kilkenny People. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  2. [2]
    Fogarty, Jim (20 May 2019). "Tommy O'Connell RIP". Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Tommy's goals were all in vain". Irish Examiner. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
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