| Code: | Hurling |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Matthew Whelan | |
| Irish: | Maitiú Ó Faoileáin |
| Feet: | 6 |
| Inches: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Secondary school teacher |
| County: | Laois |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Borris-in-Ossory Borris-in-Ossory/Kilcotton |
| Clcounty: | 1 |
| Colleges: | University of Limerick |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Counties: | Laois |
| Icposition: | Centre-back |
| Icyears: | 2007-2021 |
| Icapps(Points): | 42 (0-29) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 18:11, 26 June 2021 |
| Birth Date: | 1 February 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Borris-in-Ossory, County Laois, Ireland |
Matthew Whelan (born 1 February 1988) is an Irish hurler who plays for Laois Senior Championship club Borris-in-Ossory/Kilcotton. He is a former member of the Laois senior hurling team.
Whelan first came to Gaelic games prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the Borris-in-Ossory club, before eventually joining the club's top adult team. After the creation of the new Borris-in-Ossory/Kilcotton club, he went on to win a County Senior Championship in 2016, having earlier won three intermediate titles.[1] Whelan first played at inter-county level as a dual player with the Laois minor teams. He won a Leinster Minor Championship title in 2005, before winning an All-Ireland Schools' Championship title in 2006.[2] [3] Whelan was straight out of the minor grade when he made his Laois senior hurling team debut in 2007. Over the course of the following 15 seasons, he became a first-team regular and had two spells as team captain, while he also won a Joe McDonagh Cup medal and two National League Division 2 titles.[4] Whelan retired from inter-county hurling on 25 July 2021, having made a record number of appearances for Laois.[5] [6]
| Team | Year | National League | McDonagh Cup | Leinster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Laois | 2007 | Division 2A | 9 | 1-09 | — | 1 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-02 | 13 | 1-11 | ||
| 2008 | Division 1B | 5 | 0-01 | — | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 5 | 0-01 | |||
| 2009 | Division 2 | 7 | 0-00 | — | 1 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 9 | 0-00 | |||
| 2010 | 6 | 0-07 | — | 2 | 0-05 | 1 | 0-00 | 9 | 0-12 | ||||
| 2011 | 7 | 0-02 | — | 1 | 0-02 | 1 | 0-02 | 9 | 0-06 | ||||
| 2012 | Division 1B | 6 | 0-03 | — | 2 | 0-02 | 1 | 0-00 | 9 | 0-05 | |||
| 2013 | Division 2A | 6 | 0-16 | — | 3 | 0-07 | 1 | 0-00 | 10 | 0-23 | |||
| 2014 | Division 1B | 6 | 0-07 | — | 5 | 0-03 | 1 | 0-02 | 12 | 0-12 | |||
| 2015 | 4 | 0-00 | — | 5 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-01 | 10 | 0-01 | ||||
| 2016 | 7 | 0-01 | — | 1 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-01 | 9 | 0-02 | ||||
| 2017 | 2 | 0-00 | — | 4 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-01 | 8 | 0-01 | ||||
| 2018 | 6 | 0-00 | 5 | 0-01 | — | — | 11 | 0-01 | |||||
| 2019 | 6 | 0-00 | 5 | 0-02 | — | 2 | 0-00 | 13 | 0-02 | ||||
| 2020 | 3 | 0-00 | — | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-00 | ||||
| 2021 | 4 | 0-00 | — | 1 | 0-01 | 1 | 0-00 | 6 | 0-01 | ||||
| Career total | 84 | 1-46 | 10 | 0-03 | 26 | 0-20 | 16 | 0-09 | 136 | 1-78 | |||
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2015 (c)