Rody Nealon

Rody Nealon, born Rhoderick Nealon and living from 16 January 1898 to 29 November 1988, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic games administrator from Newtown, County Tipperary, whose championship career with the Waterford, Kilkenny and Tipperary senior teams lasted from 1918 until 1925. Educated at De La Salle College in Waterford, where he featured prominently on the college hurling team, he played club hurling with De La Salle, Mullinavat in Kilkenny and his home club Youghalarra, with which he won a North Tipperary junior championship medal in 1931. As a student teacher in 1918 he made his senior championship debut with Waterford in their defeat by Limerick, joined the Kilkenny senior team four years later, and returned to Tipperary to win an All-Ireland junior medal in 1924 and an All-Ireland senior medal in 1925. At twenty-six he became chairman of the North Tipperary GAA Board for a two-year term.