Eddie Connolly (29 October 1985 to 17 September 2015) was an Irish hurler who played for his local club Loughmore-Castleiney and was a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county team. He made his senior debut on 13 March 2011 against Offaly, starting at right corner back in a 1-20 to 0-10 National Hurling League victory. An accomplished defender in both hurling and Gaelic football, he played senior hurling and football for the county and captained Tipperary to the 2012 All-Ireland Intermediate hurling championship, and he was also a distinguished player for the Dublin Institute of Technology. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013 and died on 17 September 2015 at the age of 29.
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