Joe Hayes (hurler)

Joe Hayes, born on 9 January 1963, is an Irish former hurling manager and former player whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned eight seasons from 1986 to 1994. He first appeared for the Clonoulty-Rossmore club at juvenile and underage levels and later its senior team, winning a county championship medal in 1989. Selected for the Tipperary minor team at sixteen, he won an All-Ireland minor medal in his debut season, later was a back-to-back All-Ireland under-21 runner-up and made his senior debut in the 1986 to 87 league. Over the following eight seasons he won All-Ireland SHC medals in 1989 and 1991, five Munster SHC medals and two National League medals, and later won an All-Ireland junior medal as player-manager with Monaghan.