Mick Brophy

Mick Brophy was born on 9 October 1932 in Danesfort, County Kilkenny, played at midfield for Kilkenny in the 1957 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, when Kilkenny beat Waterford by a single point, and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1950s. He played underage hurling with Eoghan Ruadh of Callan and later with his local club Danesfort, and he played with the Kilkenny minor teams in 1949 and 1950, capturing the All-Ireland title in 1950. For many years he was the only Danesfort man to hold a senior All-Ireland hurling medal. He was renowned as a skilful left handed midfielder, especially noted for his ability to double on the ball in the air, and he died in spring 2009.