Locky Byrne
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Lochlainn Ó Broin | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Full-forward | ||
| Born | 1913 Waterford, Ireland |
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| Died | January 1941 Dublin, Ireland |
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| Nickname | Locky | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Mount Sion | |||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1931-1941 1934-1938 |
Waterford Kilkenny |
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| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 1 | ||
| All-Irelands | 1 | ||
| NHL | 0 | ||
James Loughlin "Locky" Byrne (1913 – January 1941) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-forward for the Kilkenny and Waterford senior teams.
Born in Waterford, Byrne first excelled at hurling in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of fifteen when he first linked up with the Waterford minor team, before later joining the senior side. He made his senior debut during the 1931 championship. Byrne immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen, before later playing with Kilkenny, and won one All-Ireland medal, one Leinster medal and one Munster medal. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.
As a member of the Munster and Leinster inter-provincial teams on a number of occasions, Byrne won one Railway Cup medal. At club level he played with Ferrybank, Slieverue, Mooncoin and Mount Sion, winning several championship medals.
Loughlin Byrne was born in the Glen area of Waterford in 1913. The son of a railyard worker called James "Dashy" Byrne, he was raised in Ferrybank on the Waterford-Kilkenny border.
Byrne played his club hurling with a selection of famous clubs in both Waterford and Kilkenny. He first tasted success with Ferrybank in 1928 when he won a minor county title with the club. Byrne later joined the famous Mooncoin club in Kilkenny. Here he enjoyed further success when he captured a senior county title in 1936 He also lined out with Slieverue during this period. Byrne later joined the famous Mount Sion club in Waterford city and shared in some of that club's famous victories. He won his first senior county title with Mount Sion in 1938. It was the first of three consecutive county titles as Byrne collected two more county medals in 1939 and 1940.
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