Tommy Ring (hurler)

Thomas O. Ring (1939 – 1 July 2020) was an Irish hurler. At club level he played for a number of clubs, including Castlepollard and Kilmacud Crokes, and was a long-time member of the Westmeath senior hurling team.[1]

Tommy Ring
Personal information
Irish name Tomás Ó Rinn
Sport Hurling
Position Right wing-forward
Born 1939
Castlepollard, County Westmeath, Ireland
Died 1 July 2020 (aged 81)
Rathcoole, County Dublin, Ireland
Club(s)
Years Club
 Meelin
Castlepollard
New Irelands
Kilmacud Crokes
Club titles
Westmeath titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1955–1972
 Westmeath
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 0
All-Irelands 0
NHL 0
All Stars 0

Playing career

Born in Castlepollard, Ring was the son of a Cork-born father and a Louth-born mother and first played hurling when he joined the local Castlepollard club. He earned a call-up to the Westmeath minor team in 1954, before later moving to Cork and lining out with the Meelin club as a junior. On his return to Castlepollard, Ring won a county minor medal in 1956 and was promoted to the Westmeath senior team as goalkeeper at 18 years of age, a position he retained on and off for a further seven years. After winning a National League Division 2 in 1961, he ended the year by captaining Castlepollard to a county senior championship. Work brought Ring to Dublin, where he hurled for New Irelands for three years before later joining the Kilmacud Crokes club. By this stage he had switched from goalkeeper to midfielder and forward with the Westmeath senior team and claimed a second Division 2 title in 1964 before becoming one of the top marksmen of the 1960s and early 1970s. After his inter-county career ended in 1972, Ring continued to line out with Kilmacud Crokes and won county senior championship medals in 1974 and 1976. In retirement he came to be regarded as one of Westmeath's greatest-ever hurlers and was selected in the right wing-forward position on the Westmeath Hurling Team of the Millennium.

Personal life

Ring died in Rathcoole, County Dublin on 1 July 2020.[2] He was survived by his wife Therese and six children. His son, Connie Ring, lined out with the Craobh Chiaráin club and was a member of the Dublin senior hurling team.

Honours
Castlepollard
Kilmacud Crokes
Westmeath
Leinster
Awards
  • Westmeath Hurling Team of the Millennium: Right wing-forward

References
  1. "Ring of steel". Hogan Stand website. 31 March 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  2. "Westmeath GAA mourns a hurling great". Hogan Stand. 2 July 2002. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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