Damien Fitzhenry, born on 5 July 1974, is an Irish hurling coach and former player who kept goal for the Wexford senior team from 1993 until 2010, and is widely regarded as Wexford's greatest ever goalkeeper. The youngest of fifteen children, he played his club hurling and football with Duffry Rovers. He made his senior debut in a National Hurling League quarter-final against Westmeath in 1993, and in 1996 he won a first Leinster title and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, when Wexford beat Limerick in the final under manager Liam Griffin. A second Leinster title followed in 1997, and he was named the championship's best goalkeeper with a first All-Star award that year, then won a second in 2004 and a GPA All-Star in 2007. In 2007 he scored a crucial goal in the All-Ireland quarter-final win over Tipperary, and he returned to the panel in 2009 after thinking about retirement.
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career as a goalkeeper with the Wexford senior team
Competed In: All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Inter-county, 1996 final
It was Fitzhenry's first All-Ireland SHC medal and Wexford's first since 1968.
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