Conor Stakelum

Conor Stakelum, born in 1968 in Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, is an Irish hurling selector and former player who is a former selector with the Tipperary senior team. He came from a family with a strong hurling tradition, his uncle Pat Stakelum having captained Tipperary to the All-Ireland title in 1949. With Borris-Ileigh he won minor and under-21 county medals and, in the 1986 to 87 season, All-Ireland, Munster and county senior championship medals. He joined the Tipperary minor team at seventeen in 1986, won an under-21 All-Ireland medal in 1989, made his senior debut in the 1987 to 88 league and collected a National Hurling League medal in his debut season. He claimed an All-Ireland senior medal on the field of play in 1991, won three Munster medals as a non-playing substitute, played his last game in August 1993 and was recalled to the panel for one final season in 1995.