Declan Carr

Declan Carr

Personal information
Irish name	Déaglán Ó Carra
Sport	Hurling
Position	Midfield
Born	30 July 1965 (1965-07-30) (age 46) Dublin, Ireland
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Holycross-Ballycahill
Club Titles
Tipperary titles	1
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1989-1993, 1999	Tipperary	16 (1-7)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	3
All Irelands	2
NHL	1
All Stars	1

Declan Carr (born 30 July 1965 in Dublin, Ireland) is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Holycross-Ballycahill and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team^[1] from 1981 and 1993. Carr captained Tipperary to the All-Ireland title in 1991.^[2]

Early life

Declan Carr was born in Dublin in 1965. He was educated locally and in 1980 he moved to Holycross in County Tipperary. While Carr went on to play hurling for Tipperary, his brother, Tommy Carr, later played football for Dublin.

Playing career

Club

Carr played his club hurling with Holycross-Ballycahill. He won a senior county championship with the club in 1990.

Inter-county

Carr’s hurling skills were quickly spotted by the inter-county selectors and he soon joined the Tipperary under-21 team in the mid-1980s. From here he moved onto the senior panel, playing in the National Hurling League campaign of 1988-1989. That year he made his senior championship debut before later collecting his first All-Ireland medal following a final win over Antrim. At the end of the year Carr was presented with an All-Star award.^[3]

Two years later in 1991 Carr was appointed captain of the Tipperary team.^[4] That year he won his first Munster medal as a full member of the Tipperary team, before later winning his second All-Ireland medal following a win over Kilkenny.^[5]

In 1994 Carr decided to leave Ireland, moving to the United States, before returning again in 1998. He regained his place on the Tipperary team, winning a National Hurling League medal in 1999. He retired from inter-county hurling panel in 1999.

Honours

Tipperary

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship:
  • Winner (2): 1989, 1991
• Munster Senior Hurling Championship:
  • Winner (3): 1989, 1991, 1993
• National Hurling League:
  • Winner (1): 1999

References

1. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60394451.html
2. ^ http://tipperary.gaa.ie/rollofhonour.html
3. ^ "1989 Tipperary Hurling Panel". tippgaaarchives.com. http://www.tippgaaarchives.com/?page_id=14&search=panel&year=1989&team=Senior%20Hurling. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
4. ^ "1991 Tipperary Hurling Panel". tippgaaarchives.com. http://www.tippgaaarchives.com/?page_id=14&search=panel&year=1991&team=Senior%20Hurling. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
5. ^ "Critics silenced as Premier heroes prove their worth". Irish Times. 1991-09-02. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0901/1224277972067.html. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 

External links

• Tipperary Senior Hurling Record

Preceded by Declan Ryan	Tipperary Senior Hurling Captain 1991	Succeeded by Colm Bonnar
Preceded by Tomás Mulcahy (Cork)	All-Ireland Senior Hurling winning captain 1991	Succeeded by Liam Fennelly (Kilkenny)

Teams

Persondata
Name	Carr, Declan
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Date of birth	30 July 1965
Place of birth	Dublin
Date of death
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