Michael Kavanagh

Michael Kavanagh is an Irish former hurler from Freshford, County Kilkenny, who played as a right corner-back at senior level for the Kilkenny county team. He first played competitive hurling at St Kieran's College, joined the Kilkenny minor team at sixteen and later the under-21 side, and joined the senior team during the 1998 championship. Immediately a regular in the starting fifteen, he won seven All-Ireland medals, ten Leinster medals and five National League medals on the field of play and was an All-Ireland runner-up three times. He won two Railway Cup medals with Leinster, and at club level is an All-Ireland medallist in the intermediate grade with St Lachtain's. He made 48 championship appearances before announcing his retirement from inter-county hurling on 9 February 2012, won the first of four All-Star awards in 2002 and was chosen as one of the 125 greatest hurlers of all time in a 2009 poll.