Ollie Baker

Ollie Baker

Personal information
Irish name	Olibhéar Báicéir
Sport	Hurling
Position	Midfield
Born	Doora, County Clare
Occupation	Garda
Club(s)
Years	Club
	St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield
Club Titles
Clare titles	3
Munster titles	2
All-Ireland Titles	1
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1995-2004	Clare	? (1-18)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	3
All Irelands	2
NHL	0
All Stars	2

Oliver "Ollie" Baker (born 1974) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a midfielder for the Clare senior hurling team. He is the current manager of the Offaly senior hurling team.

Baker made his first appearance for the team during the 1995 championship and became a regular player over the next decade. During that time he won two All-Ireland winner's medals, three Leinster winner's medals and three All-Star awards.

At club level, Baker is an All-Ireland medalist with St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield. In addition to this he also won two Munster winners' medals and three county club championship winners' medals. He won a Railway Cup winner' medal with Munster in the inter-provincial series.

In retirement from playing Baker became involved in team management. He has served as a selector with Clare, Westmeath and Antrim, before taking over as Offaly manager in 2011.

Managerial Career

On 10th of October 2011 it was announced that Baker was to become the manager of Offaly, taking over from Joe Dooley^[1]

References

1. ^ RTE Sport. "Baker to take over Offaly". http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2011/1010/bakero_offaly.html. Retrieved 11 October 2011. 

Sporting positions
Preceded by Joe Dooley	Offaly Senior Hurling Manager 2011-present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Baker, Ollie
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1974
Place of birth	Doora
Date of death
Place of death