Brendan Murtagh

Brendan Murtagh, born in 1983 in Mullingar, County Westmeath, is an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Westmeath senior team spanned twenty seasons from 2001 until 2020. Educated at Mullingar Community College and Sligo Institute of Technology, he first played with Clonkill, with whom he won an All-Ireland intermediate medal in 2008, a Leinster medal and six senior county championship medals, and he also won two senior county football championship medals with the Downs club. He made his inter-county debut at fifteen with the Westmeath minor team, winning an All-Ireland medal in 1999, then won All-Ireland under-21 medals in 2000 and 2003 before making his senior debut in the 2001 championship. Over the next seventeen seasons he won three Christy Ring Cup medals and a National League Division 2 medal in 2008.