Brendan Hennessy

Brendan Hennessy was a dual player from Ballyduff, County Kerry. He played both football and hurling with New York, and hurling and minor football with Kerry, as well as with his local Ballyduff club in hurling and Ballydonoghue in football. He spent most of his playing days in New York, where he played in a number of National Hurling League finals from the 1950s to the 1970s and in several National Football League finals, winning one in 1964 when New York beat Dublin. He played football with the Kerry club in New York and won New York Senior Football Championship medals in 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967, and he is regarded as one of the best players ever to play in New York. Before emigrating he won a Munster Junior Hurling Championship title with Kerry in 1956, and in 1955 his club Ballyduff won the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship for the first time since 1891, with his brother Michael as captain.