Tom Healy (hurler)

Tom Healy, also known as Tommy Healy and born in Coolcroo, Littleton, County Tipperary in 1855, was an Irish sportsperson who played hurling with his local club Thurles Sarsfields and was a member of the very first Tipperary inter-county team in 1887. Noted as a fine sportsperson, he represented his native Thurles hurling club in the 1880s, and in 1887 he won a Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship title with the club and was consequently picked, with the rest of the team, to represent Tipperary in the inaugural All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. His most notable moment came when he scored the very first goal in an All-Ireland Hurling Final, in the 1887 final against Galway, when he took a pass from team captain Jim Stapleton and sent a low, hard drive to the back of the net.