Tommy Doyle (Tipperary hurler)

Tommy Doyle, born Thomas Doyle and living from 8 February 1915 to 5 February 1988, was an Irish hurler from Thurles, County Tipperary, who played as a left wing-back for the Tipperary senior team. He joined the Tipperary minor team at seventeen and later the junior side, and made his senior debut in the 1936 to 37 National League. In a seventeen-year inter-county career he won five All-Ireland medals, six Munster medals and two National Hurling League medals, and he won three Railway Cup medals on the field of play with Munster and seven championship medals with Thurles Sarsfields. His brother Gerry also played with Tipperary and his nephew Jimmy was a six-time All-Ireland medallist. He retired after the 1953 championship, was the seventh recipient of the All-Time All-Star Award and was named left wing-back on the Tipperary Hurling Team of the Century in 2000.