Bill O'Donnell

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PlacesIreland
Gender
Male
Birth13 January 1912, Golden, Ireland
Death28 January 1980 (aged 68 years)
Star signCapricorn
The details

Biography

William O'Donnell (13 January 1912 - 28 January 1980) was an Irish hurler. At club level he played for Golden-Kilfeacle and Éire Óg Annacarty and was the left wing-forward on the Tipperary senior hurling team that won the 1937 All-Ireland Championship.

A native of Golden, County Tipperary, O'Donnell was educated at Rockwell College, where he won a Harty Cup medal in 1930. He began his club career with Golden-Kilfeacle but won a Tipperary Senior Championship medal with Éire Óg Annacarty in 1943, after transferring to them in January of that year .

O'Donnell made his first appearance for the Tipperary senior hurling team during the 1934 Munster Championship and had a number of successes as a forward over the following decade. In 1937 he won an All-Ireland Championship medal when Tipperary defeated Kilkenny, having earlier won a Munster Championship medal. O'Donnell won a second Munster Championship medal in 1941.

Honours

Rockwell College
  • Dr. Harty Cup (1): 1930
Éire Óg Annacarty
  • Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1943
Tipperary
  • All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1937
  • Munster Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1937, 1941
Munster
  • Railway Cup (4): 1938, 1940, 1942 (c), 1943
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