Jackie Tyrrell

His father, Dermot Tyrrell, had played for the O'Loughlin Gaels club and was an All-Ireland-winner in the minor grade in 1973 before later playing for the county at under-21 level.

Tyrrell played competitive hurling during his schooling at St. Kieran's College.

Jackie Tyrrell (born 19 June 1982) is an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team spanned fourteen seasons from 2003 to 2016.

Born in Kilkenny, Tyrrell was raised in a hurling household.

Tyrrell first appeared for the James Stephens club at juvenile and underage levels, before progressing onto the club's senior team in 1999.

In 1999 he won his first Leinster medal following a 3–13 to 1–11 defeat of Dublin Colleges.

Here he won back-to-back Leinster medals, before claiming an All-Ireland medal in 2000.

Tyrrell added a second Leinster medal to his collection in 2000, as Dublin Colleges were defeated by 2–13 to 1–10.

St. Flannan's College provided the opposition in the subsequent All-Ireland decider.

Having come close to beating the Ennis-based school at the same stage the previous year, St. Kieran's made no mistake this time and recorded a 1–10 to 0–9 victory, giving Tyrrell an All-Ireland medal.

During his studies at the Cork Institute of Technology and the Limerick Institute of Technology, Tyrrell was an automatic inclusion on the college hurling team.

By 2003 he had progressed onto the Kilkenny under-21 side and collected an All-Ireland medal as captain of the team.

That same year Tyrrell was added to the senior panel for Kilkenny's championship campaign.

Over the course of the next fourteen seasons, he won nine All-Ireland medals, beginning with a lone triumph as a non-playing substitute in 2003, a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 2006 to 2009 and four championships in five seasons between 2011 and 2015.

In 2003 Tyrrell won a county football championship medal following a 2–7 to 0–6 defeat of O'Loughlin Gaels.

Tyrrell added a county hurling championship medal to his collection in 2004 following a 2–16 to 3–12 defeat of Young Ireland's.

He later collected a Leinster title, although the one-point defeat of University College Dublin was in controversial circumstances.

The James Stephens club subsequently qualified for the All-Ireland final with Athenry providing the opposition.

A victory for "the village" gave Tyrrell an All-Ireland club medal.

An All-Ireland medal winners in 2005, he also won two Leinster medals and is a dual championship medal winner.

Tyrrell made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was picked on the Kilkenny minor panel.

He won a Leinster medal in his first season, however, an All-Ireland medal eluded him.

In 2005 he was on the LIT team that faced nearby rivals University of Limerick in the final of the Fitzgibbon Cup.

LIT failed to bend under the weight of history and recorded a comprehensive 2–13 to 3–4 victory to claim the title for the very first time.

James Stephens retained the county championship in 2005, with Tyrrell winning a second hurling medal following a 1–18 to 2–12 defeat pf Ballyhale Shamrocks.

He later picked up a second Leinster club medal following a second consecutive triumph over UCD.

James Stephens were subsequently trounced by eventual winners Portumna in the All-Ireland semi-final.

The All-Ireland-winning captain of 2006, Tyrrell was denied a record-equalling tenth winners' medal in 2016 in what was his last All-Ireland final appearance.

He also won eleven Leinster medals and six National Hurling League medals.

After surrendering their title to the Waterford Institute of Technology the following year, LIT were back in the decider again in 2007.

Joe Canning top scored with 1–8, and Tyrrell collected a second Fitzgibbon Cup medal following a 2–15 to 0–13 defeat of the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Tyrrell plays his club hurling and football with the famous James Stephens club.

He has had much success at under-age levels, including championship medals at under-14, under-16, under-21 and junior.

In 2008 Tyrrell won a second county football championship medal following a 1–09 to 1–08 defeat of Erin's Own.

After a six-year gap Tyrrell won a third hurling championship in 2011 after a thrilling draw and replay with Ballyhale Shamrocks.

Tyrrell played his last game for Kilkenny in April 2016.

He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 11 November 2016.

As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team, Tyrrell has won three Railway Cup medals.

Throughout his inter-county career he has made 48 championship appearances.

During his schooling at St. Kieran's College, Tyrrell established himself as a key member of the senior hurling team.