| Code: | Hurling |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Paul Tierney | |
| Irish: | Pól Ó Tiarnaigh |
| Fullname: | Paul Tierney |
| Feet: | 6 |
| Inches: | 1 |
| County: | Cork |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Blackrock |
| Clposition: | Half-back |
| Clyears: | 2000s-present |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icposition: | Half-back |
| Icyears: | 2004 |
| Icapps(Points): | 1 (0-0) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Birth Place: | Blackrock, County Cork |
Paul Tierney (born 1982 in Blackrock, County Cork) is an Irish sportsperson and fell runner. He played hurling with his local club Blackrock and was a member of the Cork[1] senior inter-county team from 2003 until 2004.
In 2015 Tierney won the Lakeland 100, a 100-mile ultramarathon through trails in the Lake District National Park;[2] he completed the race in 20 hours 42 minutes.[3] He is now a running coach based in Cumbria specialising in natural running techniques.[4]
He has three times finished the 330 km Tor des Géants in the Aosta Valley in less than 100 hours (99:09 in 2017, 94:39 in 2018 and 88:05 in 2021).[5]
On 20 June 2019 he broke the record for running the 214 Wainwright summits, completing in 6 days 6 hours 4 minutes and beating Steve Birkinshaw's previous record.[6] [7]