John Lanigan (hurler)

John Lanigan, who lived from 17 June 1912 to October 1988, was an Irish hurler from Rossmore, County Tipperary, whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team lasted five seasons from 1936 to 1940. He enjoyed his first successes with Thurles CBS, where he won a Harty Cup medal, and with the Thurles Sarsfields club, whose senior team he joined to win four county championship medals. Selected for the Tipperary minor team in 1929, he won an All-Ireland minor medal in 1930 and was added to the Tipperary senior team for the 1936 championship. In retirement he became a manager and selector with Thurles Sarsfields, helping the team win ten county championship medals between 1955 and 1965, and was an All-Ireland winning selector with the Tipperary senior team in 1971.