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Bill O'Donnell (hurler)

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Bill O'Donnell
Personal information
Irish name Liam Ó Dónaill
Sport Hurling
Position Left wing-forward
Born William O'Donnell
(1912-01-13)13 January 1912
Golden, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died 28 January 1980(1980-01-28) (aged 68)
Dundrum, County Tipperary, Ireland
Occupation National school principal
Club(s)
Years Club
Golden–Kilfeacle
Éire Óg Annacarty
Club titles
Tipperary titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1934–1944
Tipperary
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 2
All-Irelands 1
NHL 0

William O'Donnell (13 January 1912 – 28 January 1980) was an Irish hurler. At club level he played for Golden–Kilfeacle and Éire Óg Annacarty and was the left wing-forward on the Tipperary senior hurling team that won the 1937 All-Ireland Championship.[1]

A native of Golden, County Tipperary, O'Donnell was educated at Rockwell College, where he won a Harty Cup medal in 1930. He began his club career with Golden–Kilfeacle but won a Tipperary Senior Championship medal with Éire Óg Annacarty in 1943, after transferring to them in January of that year.[2]

O'Donnell made his first appearance for the Tipperary senior hurling team during the 1934 Munster Championship and had a number of successes as a forward over the following decade. In 1937 he won an All-Ireland Championship medal when Tipperary defeated Kilkenny, having earlier won a Munster Championship medal. O'Donnell won a second Munster Championship medal in 1941.[citation needed]

Honours

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Rockwell College
Éire Óg Annacarty
Tipperary
Munster

References

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  1. ^ "Tribute to Tipperary's 'Golden Schoolmaster'". Cork Examiner. 30 January 1980. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. ^ The Nationalist (Tipperary) 1889-current, Saturday, 23 January 1943; Page: 6