Dick Dunphy

Dick Dunphy, born Richard Dunphy and living from 1939 to November 2006, was an Irish hurler from Waterford who played as a goalkeeper for the Kilkenny senior team. He joined the Kilkenny senior team at twenty-two during the 1961 to 62 league and spent his entire career as understudy goalkeeper to Ollie Walsh, winning one Leinster medal and two National Hurling League medals as an unused substitute. At club level he was a one-time championship medallist with Mooncoin. His father Eddie, his uncles Joe, William and Wattie, and his brother Joe all played for Kilkenny at different stages. He retired after the 1966 championship and then became involved in the administration of the Gaelic Athletic Association, serving as treasurer and trustee with the Kilkenny County Board, and also served as a Fianna Fáil councillor with Kilkenny County Council.