Stephen Lucey

Stephen Lucey, born on 4 January 1980 in Croom in County Limerick, is a former Irish hurler who also played football for Limerick. He played club hurling with Croom and, during his college days, with University College Dublin, and he won two Munster and All-Ireland under-21 hurling titles with Limerick in 2000 and 2001 before joining the senior team, where his nine-year career lasted until he was dropped from the panel in 2009. He was recalled in early 2011 under the new manager Dónal O'Grady. In football he won a Munster Under-21 Football Championship in 2000 and played in several Munster Senior Football Championship finals that Limerick lost, and his honours include the 2007 GPA Hurling Team of the Year and the 2005 Munster Hurling Team of the Year.