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Jun 19, 1982 Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland 42 years old
Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
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About Jackie Tyrrell
- 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.
- 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.
- Here he won back-to-back Leinster medals, before claiming an All-Ireland medal in 2000.
- Tyrrell first appeared for the James Stephens club at juvenile and underage levels, before progressing onto the club's senior team in 1999.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- He attended Moyross national school and darndale IT.
- He returned to southill in 2000 where he became known as “GypsyKing101”
