Donie O'Connell

Donie O'Connell, born on 24 June 1960, is an Irish retired hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team lasted ten seasons from 1981 to 1991. He first appeared for the Killenaule club at juvenile and underage levels and later its adult team, with whom he won three South Tipperary championship medals. Selected for the Tipperary minor team as a dual player, he won back-to-back All-Ireland under-21 medals in 1980 and 1981 and made his senior debut in the 1981 to 82 league. Over the following ten seasons he won All-Ireland medals in 1989 and 1991, four Munster medals and one National League medal, playing his last game for Tipperary in September 1991. First chosen for Munster in 1985, he was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen for four years and won one Railway Cup medal.