Jim Fives

James Fives (1929 to 2020) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer from Tourin in County Waterford. Educated locally and at Lismore CBS, where he played school hurling, he began at underage level with the Tourin club and later played club hurling with The Curragh and Castlerea, while winning a Galway county football championship medal with An Chead Chath in 1951. His inter-county career ran for ten years, from a senior debut with Waterford in 1949 to the end of his time with Galway in 1959, during which he finished as a two-time All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runner-up. He was picked for the Rest of Ireland side several times between 1952 and 1959 and also lined out for Connacht without winning a Railway Cup medal. After his Galway years he returned to inter-county play with the Roscommon junior team and won three successive Connacht Junior Hurling Championship medals. In 1984 he was named captain of a special Hurling Team of the Century made up of players who never won an All-Ireland medal.