Dan Shanahan

Dan Shanahan, formally Daniel Shanahan, is an Irish former hurler, born in January 1977 in Lismore in County Waterford, who has been a selector with the Waterford county team since 2013. His father was a former Waterford hurler and introduced him to the game. He was a Harty Cup runner-up with Lismore CBS while also enjoying championship successes with the Lismore senior club. He made his inter-county debut at seventeen with the Waterford minor team, was twice a Munster runner-up in that grade, later lined out with the under-21 team and joined the Waterford senior team in 1995. He played a key role in attack during a hugely successful era, won four Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal and was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. He won one Railway Cup medal in 2007 with the Munster inter-provincial team.