Michael Heffernan (hurler)

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Michael Heffernan
Personal information
Sport	Hurling
Position	Forward
Born	(1989-12-30) 30 December 1989
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Occupation	Student
Club(s)
Years	Club
2005-	Nenagh Éire Óg
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County	Apps (scores)
2010-present	Tipperary	1 (0-00)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	0
All Irelands	1 (1 as sub)
NHL	0

Michael Heffernan is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Nenagh Éire Óg and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team.

Career

Heffernan won two All-Ireland Minor Hurling medals in 2006 and 2007. He made his National Hurling League debut as a substitute against Limerick in 2010, scoring a point from play. He went on to make his Championship debut on 3 July 2010 against Wexford in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Qualifiers.^[1]

On 28 July 2010, Heffernan played at corner forward, scoring 1-3 for Tipperary as they defeated Clare in the 2010 Munster Under-21 Hurling final at Semple Stadium, winning by 1-22 to 1-17.^[2]

On 5 September 2010, Heffernan was a non-playing substitute 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 Heffernan's first All-Ireland winners medal.^[3] Six day's later on 11 September 2010, Tipperary clinched the All Ireland Under-21 title by defeating Galway by 5-22 to 0-12 at Semple Stadium, with Heffernan starting at corner forward and scoring two points.^[4]

In 2012, Heffernan was part of the Tipperary team that won the Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship and the All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship.^[5]^[6]^[7] He started the All-Ireland final at full forward and scored one goal and four points in the 3-13 to 1-17 victory against Kilkenny at Semple Stadium.^[8] Heffernan created a piece of history by adding the All-Ireland intermediate medal to the 2006 and 2007 minor, 2010 Under-21 and 2010 Senior titles that he had already won.^[9]

Honours

Tipperary

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship:
- Winner (1): 2010
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship:
- Winner (1): 2010
Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship:
- Winner (1): 2010
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship:
- Winner (2): 2006, 2007
Munster Minor Hurling Championship:
- Winner (1): 2007
All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship:
- Winner (1): 2012
Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship:
- Winner (1): 2012

References

↑ "Tipperary hurlers too strong for Wexford". Irish Examiner. 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
↑ "Tipperary settle after early Clare blitz and finish strongly". Irish Times. 2010-07-29. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
↑ "Rampant Tipp deny Cats immortality". Irish Independent. 2010-09-06. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
↑ "Five-star Tipp cruise to title". Irish Independent. 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
↑ "TIPPERARY 3-13 KILKENNY 1-17". Munster GAA. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
↑ "TIPPERARY 1-18 CLARE 0-17". Munster GAA. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
↑ "Munster IHC: another title for Tipp". Hogan Stand. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
↑ "All-Ireland IHC final: Tipp supporters have something to smile about". Hogan Stand. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
↑ "Ryan hopes Tipp triumph can serve as platform". Irish Independent. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.

External links

Tipperary GAA Player Profiles

v t e Tipperary - 2007 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Champions (19th title)

1 TJ Logue 2 K. O'Gorman 3 Pádraic Maher 4 S. O'Brien 5 J. Barry 6 J. Coghlan 7 M. Cahill 8 B. Maher (c) 9 N. McGrath 10 S. Hennessy 11 C. Lorrigan 12 S. Carey 13 J. O'Neill 14 Patrick Maher 15 M. Heffernan Manager Declan Ryan

v t e Tipperary - 2006 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Champions (18th title)

1 J. Ryan 2 M. Cahill 3 P. Maher 4 B. Maher 5 E. Hogan 6 T. Stapleton 7 J. O'Keeffe 8 J. McLoughney (c) 9 G. Ryan 10 S. Hennessy 11 T. McGrath 12 N. Bergin 13 P. Bourke 14 T. Dunne 15 T. Dalton Subs used M. Gleeson S. Callanan Manager L. Sheedy

v t e Tipperary - 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions (26th title)

1 B. Cummins 2 P. Stapleton 3 P. Curran 4 M. Cahill 5 D. Fanning 6 C. O'Mahony 7 Pádraic Maher 8 B. Maher 9 S. McGrath 10 G. Ryan 11 Patrick Maher 12 J. O'Brien 13 N. McGrath 14 E. Kelly (c) 15 L. Corbett Subs used C. O'Brien for C. O'Mahony S. Callanan for J. O'Brien B. Dunne for S. McGrath S. Hennessy for B. Maher D. Young for D. Fanning Subs not used D. Gleeson P. Bourke J. Brennan D. Egan T. Hammersley M. Heffernan P. Kerwick S. Maher H. Maloney B. O'Meara Manager L. Sheedy Coach E. O'Shea Selector M. Ryan Trainer C. O'Neill

Reference: Tipperary GAA Archives Database searchable by team, year and/or player name.

v t e Tipperary - 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Champions (9th title)

1 J. Logue 2 K. O'Gorman 3 Pádraic Maher 4 M. Cahill 5 J. Barry 6 B. Maher 7 C. Hough 8 S. Hennessy 9 N. McGrath 10 S. Carey 11 Patrick Maher 12 B. O'Meara 13 M. Heffernan 14 P. Murphy 15 J. O'Dwyer Subs used C. Coughlan for K. O'Gorman J. O'Neill for J. O'Dwyer A. Ryan for P. Murphy J. Gallagher for N. McGrath K. Morris for M. Heffernan Manager K. Hogan Coach T. Dunne Selectors T. J. Connolly W. Maher

Reference: Tipperary GAA Archives Database searchable by team, year and/or player name.

Persondata
Name	Heffernan, Michael
Alternative names
Short description	Irish hurler
Date of birth	30 December 1989
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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