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Place of Birth: Graiguenamanagh, Leinster, Ireland
About Nick O'Donnell
- Nicholas "Skinny" O'Donnell (4 September 1925 – 11 June 1988) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-back for the Kilkenny and Wexford senior teams. Born in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, O'Donnell first played competitive hurling whilst at school in St.
- Kieran's College.
- He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he first linked up with the Kilkenny junior team.
- He joined the senior team for the 1947 championship, however, after failing to secure a place on the starting fifteen he later joined the Wexford team.
- O'Donnell went on to play a key part for Wexford during a golden age for the team, and won three All-Ireland medals, six Leinster medals and two National Hurling League medals.
- An All-Ireland runner-up on three occasions, O'Donnell also captained the team to All-Ireland victory in 1955 and 1960. As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team for five years, O'Donnell won just one Railway Cup medal.
- At club level he won seven championship medals with St.
- Aidan's, having earlier played for Éire Óg. After a fifteen year inter-county career, O'Donnell retired from inter-county hurling following Wexford's defeat by Tipperary in the 1962 championship O'Donnell is widely regarded as the undisputed greatest full-back in the history of the game.
- During his playing days he was named Texaco Hurler of the Year in 1960.
- He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including at full-back on the Hurling Team of the Century in 1984 and the Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000.
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