Michael Coleman (hurler)

Michael Coleman was an Irish hurler who lived from 1963 until his death on 7 February 2025 and played for the Abbeyknockmoy club and at senior level for the Galway county team, with which he won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in 1988. Born and raised in Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway, he attended St Jarlath's College in Tuam, a college more famous for Gaelic football, and later studied at University College Galway, where he was a two-time Fitzgibbon Cup runner-up. He first played for Abbeyknockmoy at adult level in 1981, and he won the Galway Senior Hurling Championship with the club in 1988. With Galway he also won the Connacht Senior Hurling Championship in 1995, 1996 as captain, 1997 and 1998 and the National Hurling League in 1986-87, 1988-89 and 1995-96.