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Place of Birth: Cloyne, Munster, Ireland
About Donal Óg Cusack
- Donal Óg Cusack (born 16 March 1977) is an Irish hurling coach and hurler who plays for Cork Premier Championship club Cloyne.
- He played for the Cork senior hurling team for 16 seasons, during which time he usually lined out as a goalkeeper.
- Noted for his innovative and sometimes controversial approach as a player and his championing of the cause of player welfare, Cusack is also regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation.Cusack began his hurling career at club level with Cloyne.
- He broke onto the club's top adult team as a 17-year-old in 1994 and enjoyed his greatest success two years later when the club won the 1997 Cork Intermediate Championship title and promotion.
- Cusack has made 85 championship appearances in three different grades of hurling for the club, while his early prowess also saw him selected for the Imokilly divisional team with whom he won the 1997 Cork Senior Championship. At inter-county level, Cusack was part of the successful Cork minor team that won the All-Ireland Championship in 1995 before later winning back-to-back All-Ireland Championships with the under-21 team in 1997 and 1998.
- He also won an All-Ireland Championships with the intermediate team in 1998.
- He joined the Cork senior team in 1996.
- Cusack eventually succeeded Ger Cunningham as first-choice goalkeeper and made a combined total of 137 National League and Championship appearances in a career that ended with his last game in 2012.
- During that time he was part of three All-Ireland Championship-winning teams – in 1999, 2004 and 2005.
- Cusack also secured five Munster Championship medals and a National Hurling League medal.
- He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 6 March 2013. Cusack won his first All-Star in 1999, before claiming a further accolade in 2006.
- He is currently the player with the third-highest number of championship appearances for Cork, second only to Christy Ring and Ben O'Connor with 58 appearances.
- At inter-provincial level, Cusack was selected to play in six championship campaigns with Munster, with Railway Cup medals being won in 2000 and 2005. After being involved in team management and coaching in all grades at club level with Cloyne, Cusack won the National League title in 2016 as coach of the Clare senior hurling team. He has been appointed manager of the Cork minor hurling team for the 2020 season. Cusack became the first openly gay elite Irish sportsman in 2009.
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