Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Séamus Ó hAonasa | ||
Sport | Hurling | ||
Position | Midfield | ||
Born |
1956 Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland | ||
Occupation | Farmer | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | Apps (scores) | |
Kilruane MacDonaghs | 31 (5-118) | ||
Club titles | |||
Tipperary titles | 4 | ||
Munster titles | 1 | ||
All-Ireland Titles | 1 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
1978-1979 | Tipperary | 0 (0-00) | |
Inter-county titles | |||
Munster titles | 0 | ||
All-Irelands | 0 | ||
NHL | 0 | ||
All Stars | 0 |
Séamus Hennessy (born 1956 [1]) is an Irish former hurler. At club level he played with Kilruane MacDonaghs and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Hennessy first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Kilruane MacDonaghs. [2] He is the only player to have lined out in six consecutive divisional under-21 finals and is one of only a handful of players to have won four consecutive Tipperary U21AHC titles with the club from 1973 to 1976. Hennessy was the youngest ever Kilruane player to line out in a North Tipperary SHC final when he did so as a 17-year-old in 1973. He came on as a substitute for Enda Hogan at midfield when Kilruane MacDonaghs won the All-Ireland Club Championship title in 1986 [3] [4]
Hennessy first appeared on the inter-county scene during a two-year tenure with the Tipperary minor hurling team. He also spent two seasons with the under-21 team.[ citation needed] Hennessy's performances at club level earned his inclusion on the senior team for the 1979 Munster SHC campaign. [5]
His son, also called Séamus Hennessy, was part of the Tipperary team that won the All-Ireland SHC title in 2010. [6]