Pat Stakelum

Patrick Stakelum, known as Pat Stakelum (6 May 1927 to 4 April 2008), was an Irish hurling selector, administrator and player. At club level he played with Holycross-Ballycahill and Young Irelands, and at inter-county level he was a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team from 1947 to 1958. He captained Tipperary to the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship title in 1949 and won a second consecutive All-Ireland medal in 1950, alongside Munster titles and National Hurling League medals. As a student at Thurles CBS he was a mainstay of the school's Dr Harty Cup team and was picked for the Munster Colleges teams that won the All-Ireland finals of 1945 and 1946.