Code: | Hurling |
Sport: | Hurling |
Tommy O'Connell | |
Irish: | Tomás Ó Conaill |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 9 |
Occupation: | Mechanic |
Nickname: | TC |
County: | Kilkenny |
Province: | Leinster |
Club: | Éire Óg Fenians |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Counties: | Kilkenny |
Icposition: | Left corner-forward |
Icyears: | 1958–1966 |
Icprovince: | 3 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nhl: | 0 |
Icupdate: | 11:28, 28 September 2012 |
Birth Place: | Romford, Essex, England |
Death Place: | Kilkenny, Ireland |
Birth Date: | 1939 10, df=yes |
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]
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.