Brendan Cummins

His father, John Cummins, played football with Tipperary in the 1960s and also featured on the Munster inter-provincial team.

Cummins was educated at the local national school in the village, before later receiving his secondary schooling in nearby Cahir.

He currently works as a bank official with the Allied Irish Bank and is based in Cahir.

Cummins plays his club hurling with Ballybacon–Grange and Gaelic football with sister club Ardfinnan.

Brendan Cummins (born 11 May 1975) is an Irish hurler and hurling coach who played as a goalkeeper for the Tipperary senior team.

Born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Cummins arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor football team, before later joining the minor hurling team and the under-21 sides in both codes.

Brendan Cummins was born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary in 1975.

He was born into a family that had a strong association with Gaelic games, particularly Gaelic football.

He made his senior hurling debut in the 1993-94 National Hurling League.

Cummins went on to play a key role as goalkeeper for twenty years, and won two All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals and three National Hurling League medals.

He was an All-Ireland runner-up on three occasions.

He won a Munster medal as goalkeeper with the Tipperary minor hurling team in 1993 following a 1–12 to 1–9 defeat of Cork.

Tipperary were subsequently defeated by Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Cummins became a dual player at senior level in 1993.

He made his debut with the Tipperary hurlers in a one-point National Hurling League victory over Waterford on 14 November 1993.

The retirement of Ken Hogan as first-choice goalkeeper on the Tipp senior hurling team in 1993 meant that the door was now open for a new player to join the starting fifteen.

His first silverware in the top flight came in April 1994, when the Tipperary senior football team won the delayed final of the McGrath Cup.

Cummins, who was just out of the minor grade, was overlooked as the position of custodian for the 1994 championship went to Jody Grace.

Two years later in 1995 Cummins had joined the Tipp under-21 team.

That year he won a Munster medal in that grade following a 1–17 to 0–14 defeat of Clare.

Tipp later reached the All-Ireland decider where Kilkenny, the reigning champions, were the opponents.

A 1–14 to 1–10 victory gave Tipp the title and gave Cummins his first All-Ireland medal in any grade.

In 1998, Cummins was goalkeeper on the Ballybacon–Grange team that captured the South Tipperary intermediate championship.

It was the first of four divisional titles in-a-row for Cummins and his club.

Cummins represented the Munster inter-provincial team at various times throughout his career, winning two Railway Cup medals in 2000 and as captain in 2001.

At club level, he plays hurling with Ballybacon–Grange and football with sister club Ardfinnan.

Throughout his hurling career Cummins made a record 73 championship appearances for Tipperary.

After failing to secure a fifth successive divisional championship, Ballybacon–Grange returned in 2003 to claim the South Tipp title once again.

It was the first of two-in-a-row for Cummins and his team.

Cummins won a seventh South Tipp intermediate championship medal in 2007.

After an absence of five years Ballybacon–Grange were back in the divisional decider once again in 2012.

Cummins registered 1–1 in that game to give Ballybacon a 1–13 to 0–11 victory over St. Mary's.

It was an eighth divisional medal for Cummins.

Cummins first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a dual player in the respective minor grades.

He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 17 October 2013.

His father, John Cummins, enjoyed a lengthy career as a Gaelic footballer and as a coach at various levels with Tipperary.

Cummins is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the game.

He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, and collected five All-Star awards during his career.

In March 2015, Cummins was featured on the TG4 documentary series Laochra Gael.

Cummins released his autobiography called Standing My Ground in October 2015.