Christy Tyrrell

Christy Tyrrell, born in December 1943, is a former Irish Gaelic football player from Kilkerrin in County Galway. He played club football with Kilkerrin and Clonberne and with the area teams Mountbellew-Moylough and St Paul's, winning two county senior titles with Mountbellew-Moylough in 1964 and 1965. He played on the Galway minor team that won the All-Ireland in 1960, won two Sigerson Cup medals with University College Galway in 1962 and 1963 and captained the Galway under-21 team to the first Connacht title in 1964. First chosen for the Galway senior team in November 1963, he was a member of the side that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1964, 1965 and 1966, a run known as the Galway three-in-a-row, before a wrist injury ended his inter-county career in the winter of 1966. He also won inter-varsity handball titles and an All-Ireland Pierce Purcell title with Galway Golf Club in 1974.