Paddy Doyle (Tipperary hurler)

Paddy Doyle, formally Patrick Doyle, was an Irish hurler who lived from 1941 until his death on 10 August 2020 and played as a left wing-forward for the Tipperary senior team. Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, he first played competitive hurling at Thurles CBS and joined the Tipperary minor teams at sixteen, later playing under-21, junior and senior Gaelic football as well and captaining the senior football side in 1961. He made his senior hurling debut in the 1965 championship, won an All-Ireland medal in 1965 as a non-playing substitute and a Munster medal on the field of play, and retired after the 1966 championship. He was a six-time championship medallist with Thurles Sarsfields, and his brother Jimmy Doyle also won All-Ireland titles with Tipperary. He later coached the Tipperary minor team and managed the Laois senior team between 1991 and 1993.