Cyril Farrell
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| Irish name | Coireall Ó Fearghail | ||||||||
| Sport | Hurling | ||||||||
| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Galway, Ireland | ||||||||
| Occupation | Retired secondary school principal | ||||||||
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Cyril Farrell (born 1 August 1950) is an Irish former hurling manager, selector, trainer and coach. He was the manager of the senior Galway county team on three separate occasions, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager and most successful in terms of major titles won.[1]
After being involved in team management and coaching in all grades at club level with Tommy Larkin's, as well as with the Galway minor and under-21 teams, Farrell was appointed coach of the Galway senior team for the first time in 1979. As manager at various times over much of the following twenty years, he led Galway through a period of unprecedented national dominance, winning seven major honours. These include three All-Ireland Championships, including back-to-back titles in 1987 and 1988, two Connacht Championships and two National Hurling Leagues.
Farrell regularly appears as a hurling pundit on RTÉ's The Sunday Game.
He won a Fitzgibbon Cup with University College Galway in 1977.[2]
Honours
Player
- University College Galway
- Fitzgibbon Cup (1): 1977
- Tommy Larkin's
- Connacht Senior Club Hurling Championship (1): 1971
- Galway Senior Club Hurling Championship (1): 1971
Manager
- Galway
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (3): 1980, 1987, 1988
- Connacht Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1997, 1998
- National Hurling League (2): 1986-87, 1988-89
- All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 1978, 1996
- All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1983
References
- ^ "Galway turn to Farrell". Irish Times. 20 September 1996. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Moran, Seán (15 February 2017). "Degrees of neglect: the impossible world of third-level GAA: The compromising of UCD's Fitzgibbon Cup bid another result of current fixture chaos". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
The late Joe McDonagh is to be commemorated at the end of this month when his alma mater NUI Galway, formerly UCG, hosts the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend. There will be a dinner on Friday week at which contemporaries from the 1977 Fitzgibbon will honour the memory of the former GAA president, who represented his college in both football and hurling. Publicity for the event includes the information that four members of that UCG side, including McDonagh himself, went on to lead their counties around Croke Park on All-Ireland final day; three of them, Conor Hayes and Pat Fleury who would also manage finalists, and Joe Connolly lifted the Liam MacCarthy. Another member of the team was Cyril Farrell, who managed Galway to back-to-back titles.