Welcome to the Hurling section of the Tipperary GAA web page. Hurling is the No.1 sport in Tipperary. Tipperary have won 28 All-Ireland Senior Hurling titles and over 60 All-Ireland titles in all grades. They also top the charts in the National League with 19 titles.
Tipperary Senior Hurling Panel – Player Profiles
List of Hurley Makers
Tipperary is known as the Premier County and the G.A.A. in Tipperary were first in a number of areas since the foundation of the Association.
- The Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in Hayes’s Hotel, Thurles on November 1, 1884.
- Four of the seven founders were Tipperary men: Maurice Davin from Carrick-on-Suir, J. K. Bracken of Templemore, P. J. Ryan of Carrick-on-Suir and Thomas St. George McCarthy, Bansha. Davin was the first President of the G.A.A. and the only President to serve two separate terms of office.
- Tipperary won the first hurling All-Ireland when they beat Galway in the final played in Birr on Easter Sunday, 1888.
- Tipperary were the first county to win three All-Irelands in the one year. The county won the senior, junior and minor in 1930.
- As well as winning the first senior hurling All-Ireland, Tipperary also won the first junior football All-Ireland in 1912, the first under-21 All-Ireland in 1964 and the first All-Ireland club championship in 1971.
- W. J. Spain of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary was the first player to win two All-Irelands in both codes. He won a football All-Ireland with Limerick in 1887 and a hurling All-Ireland with Dublin in 1889.
- Jimmy Doyle of Thurles Sarsfields, Co. Tipperary played in four minor hurling All-Irelands. He lost the first to Dublin in 1954 and won the remaining three in 1955, 1956 and 1957. He also played in nine senior All-Irelands, winning six in 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1971. The losses occurred in the 1960, 1967 and 1968 finals.
- Tony Wall of Thurles Sarsfields, Co. Tipperary was the first recipient of the Caltex (predecessor of Texaco) Hurler of the Year award in 1958.
- John Doyle of Holycross-Ballycahill, Co. Tipperary shares with Christy Ring of Cork the distinction of having won eight senior All-Ireland hurling medals on the field of play. However, he has another, unsurpassed, distinction: he is the holder of eleven National League hurling medals, won in 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961,1964, 1965
- Feile na nGael was a Tipperary brainchild and was held for the first time in Thurles in 1971.
- The first radio broadcast of a G.A.A. game was of the replay of the Munster championship game between Cork and Tipperary at Thurles in 1926.
- Tipperary got four players on the ‘Team of the Century’ in 1984, Tony Reddin, John Doyle, Jimmy Finn and Jimmy Doyle.
- Tipperary won the first ever All-Ireland Ladies Football Senior Final in 1974 and repeated the feat the following year.
- Tipperary played Waterford on October 3rd 1971 in the first ever Ladies Football inter-county match. The match was played in Ballypatrick, a little village outside Clonmel on the foothills of Slievenamon with Tipperary winning by a couple of points.
