Michael Fennelly (hurler), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Irish hurler
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Place of Birth: Ballyhale, Leinster, Ireland
About Michael Fennelly (hurler)
- Michael Fennelly (born 28 February 1985) is an Irish hurler.
- His league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted twelve seasons from 2006 until 2017.Born in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Fennelly was brought up in a family that had a strong association with hurling.
- His grandfather, Kevin Fennely, Snr, played with Kilkenny in the 1940s, while his uncles - Brendan, Ger, Kevin, Jnr, Liam and Seán - all played for Kilkenny from the 1970s until the 1990s Fennelly first played competitive hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Ballyhale Shamrocks club.
- After much success in these grades he later won three All-Ireland medals with the club's senior team.
- He has also won four Leinster medals and six county senior championship medals. Fennelly made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he was selected for the Kilkenny minor team.
- He enjoyed one championship season with the minor team, culminating with an All-Ireland medal.
- Fennelly subsequently joined the Kilkenny under-21 team, winning All-Ireland medals in 2004 and 2006.
- By this stage he had also joined the Kilkenny senior team, making his debut during the 2006 league.
- Over the course of the next twelve seasons, Fennelly won eight All-Ireland medals, including a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 2006 to 2009, followed by back-to-back triumphs in 2011 and 2012 and a final two championships in 2014 and 2015.
- The All-Ireland-winning captain of 2009, he was denied a ninth All-Ireland medal in September 2016.
- Fennelly also won nine Leinster medals, five National Hurling League medals and was named All-Star and Texaco Hurler of the Year in 2011.
- He was later joined on the Kilkenny team by his brother Colin.
- Fennelly announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 29 December 2017.
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