Paul Shefflin

Paul Shefflin (30 June 1980 to 4 March 2022) was an Irish hurler who played at club level with Ballyhale Shamrocks and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team, usually lining out at wing-back or corner-back. He first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with Ballyhale Shamrocks, took part as a schoolboy with St Kieran's College and won a Fitzgibbon Cup title with the Waterford Institute of Technology. With the Ballyhale Shamrocks senior team he went on to win three All-Ireland Club Championship medals. At inter-county level he first appeared as captain of the Kilkenny minor team that lost the 1998 All-Ireland minor final to Cork. His brothers John and Tommy won All-Ireland medals in the minor and under-21 grades, and a third brother, Henry Shefflin, won a record ten All-Ireland medals at senior level. Paul Shefflin died suddenly, while out running, on 4 March 2022.