Séamus Callanan
Séamus Callanan (born 15 September 1988 in Drom, County Tipperary) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Drom-Inch and has been a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county team since 2008.
Career
Callinan won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling medal with Tipperary in 2006,[1] scoring the winning point as a substitute in the 2006 All-Ireland Minor Hurling semi-final against Kilkenny. He helped his club Drom & Inch win a Mid Senior Hurling title in 2006, their first in 22 years. Séamus made his National Hurling League debut for Tipperary as a substitute against Offaly in 2008, scoring 0-3. Séamus won a National Hurling League medal as a late forward substitute in 2008.[2]
He made his Championship debut against Cork in the 2008 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final, scoring 3 points from play,[3] and won a Munster Senior Hurling medal at centre-forward in the final, scoring 1-3 from play against Clare.[4] Séamus was nominated for an All-Star award in 2008 as well as being nominated as Young Hurler of the Year.[5] In June 2009 he scored a goal against Clare in a two point Munster Senior Hurling Championship semi-final victory.[6] In the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final he scored 1-1 to claim his second Munster winners medal. Against Limerick in the All Ireland semi final he went on to score three points in a 6-19 to 2-7 win. In September 2009, Callinan scored three points from play in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final defeat to Kilkenny.[7]
In September 2009, Callinan was nominated for the 2009 All Star Team.[8] In October, 2009 he was picked in the 2009 Opel team of the year.[9]
On 5 September 2010, Callanan came on as a second half substitute to score two points as Tipperary won their 26th All Ireland title, beating reigning champions Killkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final, preventing Kilkenny from achieving an historic 5-in-a-row, it was Callanan's first All-Ireland winners medal.[10] Seamus picked up a collarbone injury at the start of 2011 while playing for LIT in the Fitzgibbon Cup, resulting in him missing the entire national hurling league. On his return to first team action he scored a personal tally of 0.05 to pick up the RTE Man of The Match award in Tipperary's quarter final victory over Cork. He is also the senior club captain for his club Drom & Inch for 2011 in which they won the senior county final for the first time in their history, with Seamus Scoring 0.06 (from 1.19) in the final.
Honours
Tipperary
References
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Tipperary - All-Ireland Minor Hurling Champions 2006 (18th title)
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Tipperary - National Hurling League Champions 2008 (19th title)
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Tipperary - Munster Senior Hurling Champions 2008 (37th title)
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Tipperary - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Runners-up 2009
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Tipperary - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions 2010 (26th title)
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Tipperary - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Runners-up 2011
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Callinan, Seamus |
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1988-09-15 |
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Drom |
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[[Category:Winners of 1 All-Ireland medal (hurling)