Billy Dooley

Billy Dooley, born on 26 March 1969, is an Irish former hurler who played for the Offaly Senior Championship club Seir Kieran and for the Offaly senior hurling team for 11 seasons, usually lining out as a right corner-forward. Together with his brothers Joe and Johnny he formed the backbone of the Offaly attack for over a decade. He broke onto Seir Kieran's top adult team at eighteen as a goalkeeper in the 1987 Offaly Championship and won Offaly Senior Championship titles in 1988, 1995, 1996 and 1998 after under-16 and minor titles. With Offaly he was part of the minor team that won back-to-back All-Ireland Championships in 1986 and 1987 and was an All-Ireland runner-up with the under-21 team in 1989, then joined the senior team in 1988 and, after a slow start, became an ever-present corner-forward with 66 combined National League and Championship appearances until 1999, part of the All-Ireland winning teams of 1994 and 1998.