Jimmy Smyth

James Smyth (1 January 1931 to 9 February 2013), known as Jimmy Smyth, was an Irish hurler who played as a full-forward for the Clare senior team. He made his first appearance for Clare during the 1948-49 National Hurling League and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1967 championship. In that time he won one Oireachtas medal and one Thomond Feis medal and was a Munster final runner-up on two occasions, but he never won an All-Ireland medal. At club level he was a five-time county championship medallist with Ruan. In 1984 he was named on a special Hurling Team of the Century made up of players who never won an All-Ireland medal, and in 2000 he was named on the Munster Hurling Team of the Millennium.