Kevin Fennelly
| Personal information | |||
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| Irish name | Caoimhín Ó Fionnalaigh | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) Piltown, County Kilkenny |
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| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Ballyhale Shamrocks | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Kilkenny titles | 9 | ||
| Leinster titles | 4 | ||
| All-Ireland Titles | 3 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1978-1990 | Kilkenny | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Leinster titles | 4 | ||
| All-Irelands | 3 | ||
| NHL | 2 | ||
| All Stars | 0 | ||
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Kevin Fennelly (born 1955 in Piltown, County Kilkenny) is a retired Irish hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local club Ballyhale Shamrocks and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from the late 1970s until the late 1980s. Fennelly later served as Kilkenny Senior hurling manager for the 1998 season, and Dublin manager for the 2001 and 2002 seasons. He currently lives in Gowran and writes a hurling column in the Sunday World newspaper.
Kevin Fennelly was born in Piltown, County Kilkenny in 1955. At the age of six his family moved to Ballyhale where his father had bought a farm. From an early age Fennelly and his six brothers – Michael, Ger, Brendan, Liam, Seán and Dermot – all took a great interest in the game of hurling. It was at Ballyhale national school that they first played the game and, in time, all the Fennelly boys would go on to play for club and county.
He is an uncle of the famous Kilkenny hurler, Henry Shefflin.
In his youth Fennelly quickly became a member of the newly formed Ballyhale Shamrocks club, a club which is father helped to found. He had much success with the club, beginning by winning several minor and under-21 county titles with the club. In 1978 Fennelly was a key member of the senior team when Ballyhale won their first county title. This was later converted into a Leinster club title, however, Ballyhale were narrowly beaten by Blackrock in the All-Ireland final.
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