Paddy Prendergast (hurler)

Paddy Prendergast, formally Patrick Prendergast, is an Irish retired hurler, born in 1958 in Clara, County Kilkenny, who played as a full-back and as a left wing-back for the Kilkenny senior team. He first played competitive hurling at St Kieran's College, where he won the All-Ireland Colleges Senior Hurling Championship in 1975, and he joined the Kilkenny minor team at seventeen. With Kilkenny he won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in 1979, 1982 and 1983, six Leinster Senior Hurling Championships between 1978 and 1987, captaining the team in 1987, and three National Hurling League titles, and with Clara he won the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship in 1986. He is identified here as the Kilkenny hurler to tell him apart from other people of the same name.