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Place of Birth: Ballinasloe, Connacht, Ireland
About Damien Hayes
- Damien Hayes (born 18 February 1982) is an Irish sportsman.
- He played as a corner-forward on the Galway senior hurling team from 2001 to 2015. Hayes was born in Portumna, County Galway in 1982.
- He was educated locally and later studied at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) where he won the Ryan Cup.
- He currently works in the family Volkswagen Car Sales business in Portumna, Al Hayes Motors Ltd.Hayes has had much success in the game of hurling.
- At inter-county he has won 2 All-Ireland minor medals, 2 All-Ireland senior runners-up medals, 2 National hurling League Medals (2004 and 2010) and 3 All-Star Award with Galway and a Railway Cup medal with Connacht.
- Hayes has also had an extremely successful hurling career at club level with Portumna. He has won 6 Galway Senior Hurling titles and 3 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship medals in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
- He also has won 7 Senior League Titles with Portumna.
- Damien was awarded Connacht provincial Hurler of the year in 2005 and 2006.
- He has also been Galway's Hurler of the year on 3 occasions 2005, 2006 and 2010.
- Hayes was on the historic Galway team that won their first leinster title in 2012.
- He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling in January 2015.Rugby union is Hayes's second love and he has previously won an All-Ireland Under-18 medal with Nenagh as a winger.
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