Pat O'Neill (Tipperary hurler)

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Pat O'Neill
Personal information
Sport Hurling
Position Half-forward
Club(s)
YearsClub
Cappawhite
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCountyApps (scores)
1987-1988
Tipperary 3 (0-03) [1]
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 1
All-Irelands 0
NHL 1

Pat O'Neill is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Cappawhite and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team from 1987 until 1988. [2] He captained the Tipperary team that won the 1988 National Hurling League, starting the final against Offaly at right half forward and scoring two goals and a point. He was also captain when Tipperary won the Munster Senior Hurling Championship in 1988 and was an unused substitute in the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final.

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There was a period of controversy in Tipperary Hurling at that time. "Babs" Keating, the Tipperary manager, elected to drop Pat O'Neill and strip him of the captaincy for the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final and replace him with marquee forward Nicky English. It was believed that Keating felt that the smoother Nicky English was more suited to team media duties. The image of Third Level Educated University College Cork Graduate Nicky English as an All Ireland winning captain was expected to find greater favour in the corporate world. This would be in contrast to Pat O'Neill better known as Pa O'Neill who was deemed too countryish in his demeanour. Alas, there was to be no luck for the decision, and Tipperary lost the All Ireland Final to Galway.

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References

  1. "Tipperary Hurling Results 1980-1989". Premierview. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  2. "1988 Tipperary Hurling Panel". Tipperary GAA Archives. Retrieved 5 September 2012.

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