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Place of Birth: Drom, County Tipperary, Munster, Ireland
About Séamus Callanan
- Séamus Callanan (born 15 September 1988) is an Irish hurler who plays for Tipperary Senior Championship club Drom-Inch and is the captain of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
- Often considered one of the best players of the current generation, Callanan has been a four-time nominee for Hurler of the Year, winning the award in 2019, and has won four All-Stars.
- He has won ten major trophies in his inter-county career, including three All-Ireland Championships, six Munster Championships and one National League.
- A prolific goalscorer, Callanan holds the Tipperary record for most championship goals scored (35) and is the confirmed joint second-highest goalscorer in championship history.
- He has scored 56 career goals overall in more than 100 league and championship appearances. Born and raised in Drom, County Tipperary, Callanan began his hurling career with the Drom-Inch club.
- He joined the club’s senior team as a 16-year-old in 2005 and enjoyed his first success, a Mid Tipperary Championship, in 2006.
- Over the next three years he won a further two divisional championship titles before captaining the club to their very first Tipperary Senior Championship in 2011.
- Callanan added three more divisional championship titles to his collection in 2013, 2014 and 2019. Callanan has lined out for Tipperary in three different grades of hurling over a 13-year period.
- After making his first appearance for the minor team in April 2006, he ended the year by sharing in the All-Ireland Championship success.
- Two years with the under-21 team, yielded a Munster Championship title in 2008.
- Callanan made his competitive debut for the senior team aged 19 in 2008.
- His debut season yielded National League and Munster Championship titles.
- The following four seasons saw Callanan win three more Munster Championships as well as his first All-Ireland Championship in 2010.
- Further Munster Championships were claimed in 2014, when he was the championship’s top scorer, and 2015 before winning a second All-Ireland Championship as man of the match in 2016 and a third All-Ireland Championship as captain of the team in 2019.
- This period also saw Callanan be presented with four All-Stars in six seasons and receive four nominations for Hurler of the Year.
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