| Code: | Hurling |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Tony Sheppard | |
| Irish: | Antóin Mac Aoire |
| Nickname: | Skinny |
| Occupation: | Insurance rep |
| County: | Tipperary |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Kilruane MacDonaghs |
| Clyears: | 1975-1990 |
| Clcounty: | 4 |
| Clprovince: | 1 |
| Clallireland: | 1 |
| Counties: | Tipperary |
| Icposition: | Goalkeeper |
| Icyears: | 1978-1987 |
| Icapps(Points): | 1 (0-00) |
| Icprovince: | 1 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 1 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Birth Date: | 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland |
Anthony Sheppard (born 1956) is an Irish former hurler. At club level he played with Kilruane MacDonaghs and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Sheppard first played Gaelic football and hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Kilruane MacDonaghs.[1] After winning numerous divisional titles in the minor and under-21 grades, he progressed onto the club's respective senior teams and won a combined total of 12 North Tipperary titles across both codes between 1976 and 1990. He captained Kilruane MacDonaghs to the All-Ireland Club Championship title in 1986, having earlier won four Tipperary SHC titles.[2] [3] Sheppard first lined out at inter-county level as a forward on the Tipperary minor hurling team during the 1974 Munster MHC campaign. He later spent two seasons with the under-21 team. Sheppard first played with the senior team during their successful 1978-79 National League campaign. He made his only championship appearance when he captained the team in 1986.[4] Sheppard was a non-playing substitute when Tipperary beat Cork in the 1987 Munster final replay.
1986 (c)
1985 (c)
1977, 1978, 1979, 1985 (c), 1986 (c), 1987, 1990
1987