Tom Donoghue

Tom Donoghue, who appears in the source article as Tom Donohue and was born on 24 January 1951, is an Irish retired hurler who played as a right corner-back for the Offaly senior team. He began in his home county of Galway, playing club hurling with Killimordaly and being selected to represent Galway, and in 1972 he was on the Galway team that defeated Dublin to win the county's first under-21 All-Ireland hurling final. After being offered a permanent teaching position in Tullamore, County Offaly in 1976 he joined the Ballinamere club, was selected for the Offaly senior hurling panel and made his first appearance during the 1980 to 81 National League. He became a regular for two seasons and won one All-Ireland medal and one Leinster medal, then trained the Offaly senior football panel for the 1981 to 82 season, when it won the All-Ireland final against Kerry, a story told in the book Kings of September.