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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Born | County Kerry, Ireland | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
1988s-present | Ballyheigue | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Kerry titles | 4 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
1995-2009 | Kerry | 26(2-01) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 0 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
| NHL | 1(Div 2) | ||
| All Stars | 0 | ||
John 'The Sock' Healy is an Irish hurling goalkeeper who plays with Ballyheigue and Kerry Gaelic Athletic Association teams. [1]
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin. The game has prehistoric origins, and has been played for 4,000 years. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players, and much terminology. There is a similar game for women called camogie. It shares a common Gaelic root with the sport of shinty, which is played predominantly in Scotland.
The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry. The county board is also responsible for the Kerry inter-county teams.
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders. The association also promotes Irish music and dance, as well as the Irish language.
Healy has won 4 Kerry Senior Hurling Championships with Ballyheigue in 1992, 1996, 1997 and 2000. [2] He was a member of the Kerry team who beat Waterford in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship in 1993. He won a National League Div 2 Medal with Kerry GAA in 2001 and played in losing finals in 2002 and 2006. He was also part of the Kerry team who made it to the 4th round of the qualifiers but lost out to Limerick in 2003.
The Kerry Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1889 for the top hurling teams in the county of Kerry in Ireland.
The Waterford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Waterford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for all levels of Gaelic games in County Waterford. The County Board is also responsible for the Waterford inter-county teams. The county board's offices are based at Walsh Park in the city of Waterford. The Waterford County Board was founded in 1886.
The Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition in the province of Munster, and has been contested every year since the 1888 championship.
