John Coffey (hurler)

John Coffey, who lived from 14 January 1918 to 11 August 2019, was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned nine seasons from 1940 until 1948, and as of 2018 was one of only four All-Ireland hurling medallists to have become a centenarian. Selected for the Tipperary minor team at sixteen, he won an All-Ireland minor medal in his debut year in 1934, then joined the Tipperary junior team and played without success between 1936 and 1940. He made his senior debut during the 1940 championship, was a regular member of the starting fifteen at various times over the following nine seasons and won his sole All-Ireland medal in 1945, along with one Munster medal. He retired from inter-county hurling after the 1948 championship and died in August 2019 at the age of 101.