Paul Tierney (hurler)

Paul Tierney is an Irish sportsperson and fell runner, born in 1982, who played hurling with his local club Blackrock and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 2003 until 2004. He won consecutive Cork Senior Hurling Championship medals in 2001 and 2002, won a Munster Senior Hurling Championship medal in his first season with the Cork seniors, and was an unused substitute when Cork beat Kilkenny in the 2004 All-Ireland final. He retired from hurling in 2005 at the age of 23. In 2015 he won the Lakeland 100, a 100-mile ultramarathon through the Lake District National Park, in 20 hours 42 minutes, and he has finished the 330 km Tor des Géants three times in under 100 hours. On 20 June 2019 he broke the record for running the 214 Wainwright summits, completing them in 6 days 6 hours 4 minutes. He is now a running coach based in Cumbria.