Anthony Cunningham

Anthony Cunningham is a former Irish hurler, born in June 1965, who has since managed Gaelic football and hurling teams. Born in Peterswell in County Galway and raised in the south of the county, he won two Connacht colleges medals with Our Lady's College while also joining the senior team of St Thomas'. He joined the Galway minor team at fifteen, captained it to an All-Ireland title and later captained the under-21 team to another. He joined the senior panel during the 1983-84 league, played in attack for Galway during a successful era, won two All-Ireland medals and one National Hurling League medal, and was an All-Ireland runner-up on four occasions. As a manager he led the Galway county hurling team between 2011 and 2015 and the Roscommon county football team between 2018 and 2022, and he is the only manager to lead a football team and a hurling team to provincial titles in two different provinces.