Noel Skehan

Noel Skehan, full name Richard Noel Skehan, is an Irish former hurler, born in December 1944 in Bennettsbridge in County Kilkenny, who played as a goalkeeper for the Kilkenny county team. He arrived on the inter-county scene at sixteen with the Kilkenny minor team, later joined the under-21 side and joined the senior panel during the 1963 championship. He spent almost a decade as a substitute before becoming a regular starter, and won nine All-Ireland medals, three of them as a substitute, fourteen Leinster medals, six as a substitute, and three National Hurling League medals on the field of play. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on five occasions. He also won four Railway Cup medals with the Leinster inter-provincial team, is a six-time championship medallist with Bennettsbridge, and made 42 championship appearances in his career.