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Michael 'Babs' Keating

Michael "Babs" Keating
Personal information
Irish name Mícheál Ó Céitinn
Sport Hurling
Position Left wing-forward
Born (1944-04-17) 17 April 1944 (age 73)
Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Ireland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Nickname Babs
Occupation Retired ESSO executive
Club(s)
Years Club
Ballybacon-Grange
Ardfinnan
Club titles
  Football Hurling
Tipperary titles 5 0
Inter-county(ies)*
Years County Apps (scores)
1964-1975 Tipperary 27 (16-65)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 4
All-Irelands 2
NHL 2
All Stars 1
*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 17:01, 18 February 2015.
Michael "Babs" Keating
Inter-county management
Years County
1978-1979
1986-1994
1995-1997
1997-1998
2005-2007
Galway
Tipperary
Laois
Offaly
Tipperary
Inter-county titles
County League Province All-Ireland
Tipperary 2 5 2

Michael "Babs" Keating (born 17 April 1944) is an Irish retired hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a forward for the Tipperary senior teams.

Born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Keating first played competitive Gaelic games during his schooling at CBS High School Clonmel. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor teams in both codes, before later joining the under-21 sides. He joined the senior football panel during the 1960 championship before being added to the senior hurling panel four years later. Keating was a regular member of the starting fifteen on both teams, and won two All-Ireland medals, four Munster medals and two National Hurling League medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.

As a member of both Munster inter-provincial teams on a number of occasions, Keating won a combined total of three Railway Cup medals. At club level he was a five-time football championship medallist with Ardfinnan. Keating played his club hurling with Ballybacon-Grange.

Throughout his career Keating made 27 championship appearances with the senior hurlers. He retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1975 championship, however, his inter-county football career lasted until the end of the 1980 championship.


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