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| Born | 14 June 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Carpenter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Hurling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patrick Walsh (born 14 June 1963) [1] is an Irish retired hurler. At club level,he played with Windgap and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team.
Walsh began his club hurling career at juvenile and underage levels with Windgap. He was centre-back on the club's junior team that beat Danesfort by 1–11 to 2–01 to win the Kilkenny JHC title in 1986. [2]
At inter-county level with Kilkenny,Walsh won two All-Ireland medals in the space of a few weeks in 1984,after lining out for the successful under-21 and junior teams. [3] He also made his senior team debut that year and was part of Kilkenny's four-point 1984 Oireachtas Cup final defeat of Cork. [4]
Walsh remained a member of the senior team's extended panel for the next few seasons. He won a National Hurling League title in 1986,before later claiming successive Leinster SHC medals. [5] Walsh lined out at right corner-forward in Kilkenny's 1–12 to 0–09 defeat by Galway in the 1987 All-Ireland SHC final. [6] He ended his inter-county career with a second All-Ireland JHC success in 1990. [7]