Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael Aogán Ó Fearghail has expressed his condolences on behalf of the Association to the family of Mickey ‘The Rattler’ Byrne who passed away over the weekend aged 93.
 
A legendary figure within the game of hurling, he amassed an incredible list of honours over the course of a glittering career and was named at right corner back on the Tipperary team of the millennium in 1999.
 
He won no fewer than 14 Tipperary SHC medals with Thurles Sarsfields and five All-Ireland medals with his county before retiring in 1960.
 
The GAA President said: “Mickey, forever known as ‘The Rattler’, was synonymous with a golden era for hurling in Tipperary.
 
“His personal honours list is one most counties would be proud of and his contribution to Tipperary GAA and by extension the Association as a whole, was enormous.
 
“It is characters such as him that embed the GAA and our games in the minds of young people, generation after generation, and I express my sympathies and those of Cumann Lúthchleas Gael to his family and friends, his club Thurles Sarsfields and of course the people of Tipperary on losing one of their greats.”
 
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