David Herity

David Herity, born on 12 April 1983, is an Irish hurling manager and former dual player of hurling and Gaelic football who played for the Kilkenny Championship club Dunnamaggin and was a member of the Kilkenny senior hurling team for eight seasons as a goalkeeper. He broke onto Dunnamaggin's top adult team at seventeen in 2000, the year the club won the Kilkenny Intermediate Championship, and also played Gaelic football with the Kilmoganny club. With Kilkenny he was part of the minor team that won Leinster titles in 1999 and 2001 and the under-21 team that won back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 2003 and 2004. He joined the senior team in 2003, became the first-choice goalkeeper with 30 combined National League and Championship appearances until 2014, was part of five All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning teams in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014, and won five Leinster Senior Hurling Championship medals.