Jimmy Kennedy (hurler)
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Jimmy Kennedy (died September 2007) is a former Tipperary and Dublin hurling player.
[edit] Tipperary
Jimmy won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship on three occasions for Tipperary in 1949, 1950 and 1951 having played the previous three seasons with Dublin.[1] He also won one NHL medal in 1950, a railway cup medal during the same year and an Oireachtas medal the previous year. Kennedy won the schools competition the Harty Cup medal with St. Flannan’s College Ennis in 1944. Jimmy also played with his local hurling side Kildangan, and helped guide them to a North Tipperary Junior Hurling title in 1944.
[edit] Dublin
While at UCD Jimmy won a Fitzgibbon Cup medal in 1948. He also collected two Dublin Senior Hurling Championship medals for UCD in 1947 and 1948. He won two Leinster Senior Hurling Championship medals with Dublin in 1946 and 1948. In the 1948 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final his team lost to Waterford at [{Croke Park]]. Jimmy captained Leinster in the 1949 Railway cup final against Munster before he declared to play for Tipperary for 1949.
