Ned Rea

Éamonn Ned Rea was an Irish hurler who lived from 1944 until his death on 22 November 2021 and played as a full-forward for the Limerick senior team. He joined Limerick during the 1964 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1974 championship, winning one All-Ireland medal, in 1973, and two Munster medals, in 1973 and 1974, and finishing as an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. He attended St Munchin's College in Limerick, won the Fitzgibbon Cup with University College Cork in 1965 and 1966, and began his club career with Effin before playing for Kilmallock and, in Dublin, for Faughs, with whom he was a three-time county club championship medallist, winning the Dublin Senior Club Hurling Championship in 1970, 1972 and 1973.