Martin Brennan (hurler)
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| Born | June 1946 (age 79) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Full-forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Martin Brennan (born 1946) is an Irish hurling coach and former player. At club level, he played with Erin's Own and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team.
Born in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, Brennan first played hurling as a schoolboy at the local national school and won two county juvenile championship medals.[1] He later lined out at club level with Erin's Own.
At inter-county level, Brennan first played for Kilkenny as a corner-forward on the minor team beaten by Laois in the 1964 Leinster MHC final.[2] He progressed to the under-21 team as a goalkeeper, but ended his underage career without silverware.
Brennan first played for the senior team in a tournament game in December 1966. He scored a goal from corner-forward when Kilkenny beat Tipperary in the 1967 All-Ireland SHC final.[3] Brennan won his first Leinster SHC medal on the field of play two years later.[4] He later claimed a second All-Ireland SHC medal after a 2–15 to 2–09 win over Cork.[5] Brennan's hurling career ended when he suffered a severe ankle fracture while playing with Kilkenny in New York.