John Kennedy (hurler)

John Kennedy, born on 7 November 1964, is an Irish retired hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team lasted seven seasons from 1986 to 1992. He first appeared for the Clonoulty-Rossmore club at juvenile and underage levels and later won county championship medals with its senior team in 1989 and 1997. For Tipperary he won an All-Ireland minor medal as captain and an All-Ireland under-21 medal in 1985, joined the senior team and made his debut in a challenge game in 1987. Over the following few seasons he won All-Ireland medals in 1989 and 1991, four Munster medals and one National League medal, until a knee injury ended his career after a brief comeback in 1992. First chosen for the Munster inter-provincial team in 1987, he was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen for two years but ended his career without a Railway Cup medal.