Séamus Callanan
Irish hurler (born 1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Séamus Callanan (born 15 September 1988) is an Irish hurler who plays for Tipperary Senior Championship club Drom & Inch and is a former All-Ireland winning 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 (40) and is the second-highest goalscorer in championship history. He has scored 63 career goals overall in 126 league and championship appearances.
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Séamus Ó Callanáin | ||
Sport | Hurling | ||
Position | Full-forward | ||
Born |
(1988-09-15) 15 September 1988 (age 35) Drom, County Tipperary, Ireland | ||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Nickname | Séamie | ||
Occupation | Sales representative | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
2005–present | Drom & Inch | ||
Club titles | |||
Tipperary titles | 1 | ||
Colleges(s) | |||
Years | College | ||
2009–2013 | Limerick Institute of Technology | ||
College titles | |||
Fitzgibbon titles | 0 | ||
Inter-county(ies)* | |||
Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2008–2023 | Tipperary | 66 (40–226) | |
Inter-county titles | |||
Munster titles | 6 | ||
All-Irelands | 3 | ||
NHL | 1 | ||
All Stars | 4 | ||
*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of match played 28 May 2023. |
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 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.