Mick Flannelly
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Mícheál Ó Flannaile | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Right wing-forward | ||
| Born |
21 February 1930 Waterford, Ireland |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Nickname | Flan | ||
| Occupation | Printer | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Mount Sion | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Waterford titles | 15 | ||
| Inter-county(ies)* | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1949-1965 | Waterford | 33 (10-24) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 3 | ||
| All-Irelands | 1 | ||
| NHL | 1 | ||
| *Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 17:39, 22 March 2015. | |||
Michael Peter "Mick" Flannelly (born 21 February 1930) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a right wing-forward for the Waterford senior team.
Born in Waterford, Flannelly first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he first linked up with the Waterford minor team. He made his debut during the 1949-50 league. Flannelly was a regular member of the team for over a decade and a half and won one All-Ireland medal and two Munster medals. Her was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.
Flannelly was a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on several occasions, but failed to win a Railway Cup medal. At club level he was a fifteen-time championship medallist with Mount Sion.
His father, Matt, enjoyed a distinguished Gaelic football career with Galway.
Throughout his career Flannelly made 33 championship appearances. He retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1965 championship.
Mick came from a sporting family. His father, Matt, was a Mayo man who moved to Tuam, Co Galway in 1902. Whilst there he won 6 county Galway senior football championships and then, having moved to Galway in 1910 he won a further 3 football championships. Between 1908 and 1920 he was a regular member of the Galway inter-county team and played in the All-Ireland final in 1919 when Galway lost to Kildare. He had played handball as a means of getting fit for football and after he moved to Waterford in 1920 continued with both games. In 1925, however, he decided to concentrate more on handball and in that year, partnered by Mick Batterberry, contested the All-Ireland senior doubles final. In 1928 he won his All-Ireland medal when he won the Junior singles championship for Waterford. That year, in company with Jack Flavin, they reached the All-Ireland senior doubles final only to be narrowly beaten. Matt had also played football during his handball years - with Ballytruckle at first and then Gracedieu. He played his last football game in 1933 - thirty years after he first graced the football fields of Galway.
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