Jackie Tyrrell

Jackie Tyrrell is an Irish hurler, born in Kilkenny in June 1982, whose league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team spanned fourteen seasons, from 2003 to 2016. He was raised in a hurling household, his father Dermot Tyrrell having played for the O'Loughlin Gaels club and won an All-Ireland minor medal in 1973. At St Kieran's College he won back-to-back Leinster colleges medals and an All-Ireland colleges title in 2000, and at the Limerick Institute of Technology he won the Fitzgibbon Cup in 2005 and 2007. He progressed to the James Stephens senior team in 1999 and won the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship with the club in 2005, together with two Leinster club titles.