Damien Hayes

Damien Hayes is an Irish hurler from Portumna in County Galway, born in February 1982, who played as a corner-forward for the Galway county team from 2001 to 2015. He studied at Limerick Institute of Technology, where he won the Ryan Cup, and works in the family car sales business in Portumna. At inter-county level he won two All-Ireland minor medals, two National Hurling League medals in 2004 and 2010 and three All-Star awards, and was on the losing side in two All-Ireland senior finals. He was on the Galway team that won its first Leinster title in 2012, and he also won a Railway Cup medal with Connacht. With his club Portumna he won six Galway senior hurling titles and three All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship medals, in 2006, 2008 and 2009. He retired from inter-county hurling in January 2015, and also played rugby union with Nenagh as a winger.