Mick Burns (hurler) explained

Code:	Hurling
Sport:	Hurling
Mick Burns
Irish:	Mícheál Ó Broin
Birth Place:	Nenagh, County Tipperary, Irish Free State
Death Place:	Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland
Feet:	5
Inches:	9
County:	Tipperary
Province:	Munster
Club:	Nenagh Éire Óg
Clposition:	Right wing-back
Counties:	Tipperary
Icposition:	Right wing-back
Icyears:	1958–1968
Icprovince:	8
Icallireland:	5
Nhl:	6

Mick Burns (1937 – 22 February 2023) was an Irish hurler who played for his local club Nenagh Éire Óg and was a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1950s and 1960s.

Career

Burns was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary. He won five All-Ireland titles and eight Munster titles with Tipperary between 1958 and 1968.^[1] ^[2] He won two North Tipperary Senior Hurling Championships with Éire Óg in 1957 and as captain in 1964.

Death

Burns died on 22 February 2023, at the age of 85.^[3] ^[4]

Honours

Tipperary

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (5): 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965
Munster Senior Hurling Championship (8): 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968
National Hurling League (6): 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68
Oireachtas Cup (4): 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1955
Munster Minor Hurling Championship (2): 1954, 1955

Munster

Railway Cup (1): 1963

Nenagh Éire Óg

North Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1957, 1964 (c)
North Tipperary Minor A Hurling Championship (3): 1951, 1953, 1955

Notes and References

Web site: Munster Senior Hurling Final Winners. Munster GAA. 2009-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20100107012735/http://munster.gaa.ie/winning-teams/sh_teams/. 2010-01-07. dead.
Web site: Tributes paid after passing of Tipperary All-Ireland hurling winner Mick Burns. 22 February 2023. The 42. 23 February 2023.
Web site: Tipperary hurling great Mick Burns has died. 22 February 2023. RTE News. 23 February 2023.
Web site: Mick Burns Nenagh Eire Óg and Tipperary RIP. 22 February 2023. Tipperary GAA. 23 February 2023.