Shane Dooley

Shane Dooley, born on 26 September 1986 in Tullamore, County Offaly, is an Irish hurler who previously played as a right corner-forward for the Offaly senior team. He came from a strong hurling family: his father Joe and uncles Johnny and Billy Dooley won seven All-Ireland SHC medals between them from 1985 to 1998, and earlier relatives won All-Ireland junior titles with Offaly in 1923 and 1929. At Tullamore College he played hurling and football and won a Leinster Vocational Schools Junior B medal and an All-Ireland Vocational Schools medal, and with the Tullamore club he won a county hurling championship medal and three senior football championship medals as a dual player. He won a Fitzgibbon Cup medal at the University of Limerick in 2011 and, after lining out for the Offaly minor and under-21 teams in both codes, concentrated on hurling after his senior debut during the 2007 league.