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Place of Birth: Carrick-on-Suir, Munster, Ireland
About Mick Roche
- Michael "Mick" Roche (8 October 1943 – 7 December 2016) was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned twelve seasons from 1963 to 1974.
- He is regarded as one of the greatest centre-backs of all time, in spite of spending much of playing career in his favoured position of midfield.Born near Carrickbeg, County Waterford, Roche was raised in a household that had a strong association with Gaelic games.
- His father was a founder-member of the Carrick Davins club and had played Gaelic football for Tipperary.
- He first came to prominence as a hurler as a member of the St.
- Molleran's minor team that won the county minor championship title with 1959.
- Roche subsequently joined the Carrick Davins club and went on to win one Munster medal and two county senior championship medals. After failing to secure a place on the Waterford minor team in 1960, Roche made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected on the Tipperary minor team in 1961.
- He won a Munster medal that year but was later denied an All-Ireland medal in what was his last game in the minor grade.
- A successful year with the Tipperary intermediate hurlers culminated in the winning of an All-Ireland medal in 1963, before claiming an All-Ireland medal with the under-21 team in 1964.
- By this stage he had also joined the Tipperary senior panel, first lining out during the 1963 championship.
- Over the course of the next twelve seasons, Roche won three All-Ireland medals, beginning with back-to-back triumphs in 1964 and 1965, and ending with a final title in 1971.
- He was an All-Ireland runner-up as captain in 1967 and 1968.
- Roche also won five Munster medals and three National Hurling League medals.
- He played his last game for Tipperary in July 1974. After being chosen at midfield on the Munster inter-provincial team in 1965, Roche was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen for much of his playing career.
- He won a total of three Railway Cup medals. Roche is widely regarded as one of the great centre-backs of his era and as one of the greatest Tipperary players of all time.
- During his career he was honoured with three Cú Chulainn awards, while he was also chosen on the inaugural All-Star team.
- In 2000 Roche was named at midfield on the Tipperary Team of the Century, while he was later chosen as one of the 125 greatest hurlers of all-time in a 2009 poll.
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