Gearóid McInerney

Gearóid McInerney is an Irish hurler, born in September 1990 in Oranmore in County Galway, who plays as a centre-back at senior level for the Galway county team. He was born into a strong hurling family, his father Gerry McInerney having been a Galway player who won back-to-back All-Ireland medals in 1987 and 1988. At primary school in Oranmore he won two county A titles in hurling and football, and he later played more hurling at Calasanctius College while coming to prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the Oranmore-Maree club. With Galway he won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship and the National Hurling League in 2017, a second league title in 2021 and the All-Ireland Under-21 title in 2011, and in 2017 he was also named The Sunday Game Hurler of the Year and won an All-Star.