Joe Dooley (Seir Kieran hurler)

Joe Dooley, born on 13 November 1963 in Clareen, County Offaly, is an Irish former hurler and manager. He enjoyed a successful playing career at club level with Seir Kieran and is the only Offaly player ever to have won three All-Ireland titles. After a spell as player-manager with Seir Kieran he worked as manager with Tullamore, Toomevara and Offaly, managed the Irish Senior International Shinty team against Scotland for three years, and managed the Leinster Senior Hurling team from 2012 to 2014. The eldest of five boys and four girls, he was born into a family steeped in hurling history, with granduncles and a grandfather who played for Offaly in the junior All-Ireland finals of 1915, 1923 and 1929, and his brothers Billy and Johnny and his son Shane are also well known hurlers. He is remembered in the song That's Joe Dooley.