Hugh Shelly

Hugh Shelly, who lived from 21 November 1883 to 11 May 1957, was an Irish hurler from Thurles, County Tipperary, whose championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned seventeen years from 1906 until 1923. He first played hurling with the Thurles Sarsfields club, established himself on the senior team and won six county senior championship medals between 1904 and 1911. Selected for the Tipperary senior team at twenty-three, he made his debut in the 1906 championship and quickly became a regular, and in an inter-county career spanning three decades he won three All-Ireland medals, beginning with a victory in his debut season in 1906, a second in 1908 and a third and final winners' medal in 1916, along with six Munster medals. He played his last game for Tipperary during the 1923 championship.