Flor Coffey

Flor Coffey, born Florence Coffey and living from 10 June 1920 to 25 April 2014, was an Irish hurler from Boherlahen, County Tipperary, who played as a centre-back for the Tipperary senior team. He joined the Tipperary minor team at seventeen and later the junior side, made his senior debut during the 1943 championship and immediately became a regular, winning two All-Ireland medals, one Munster medal and one National Hurling League medal. He won one Railway Cup medal with Munster as a non-playing substitute, and at club level was a two-time Connacht medallist, first with Boherlahan-Dualla and later with Thurles Sarsfields. He retired from inter-county hurling after the 1953 championship.