Ronan Connolly
Irish hurler (born 1999)
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Ronan Connolly (born 1999) is an Irish hurler who plays for Limerick Senior Championship club Adare and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team.[1] He usually lines out as a left corner-back.
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| Born | 1999 (age 26–27) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Hurling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Left corner-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| *Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 22:23, 23 July 2023. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career
Connolly first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Adare club, while also playing as a schoolboy with Ardscoil Rís. He won a Harty Cup title in 2016, before captaining Ardscoil Rís to a second Harty Cup in 2018.[2][3] Connolly later lined out with University College Cork and was an unused substitute when the Fitzgibbon Cup title was won in 2020.[4][5]
Connolly first appeared on the inter-county scene with Limerick as a member of the minor team in 2017.[6] He later spent one season with the under-20 team.[7] Connolly was called into the senior team in advance of the pre-season 2019 Munster SHL. He was on the 41-man panel that won the National Hurling League title later that season, but was released prior to the start of the championship.[8] Connolly later returned and was part of the Limerick panel that won four successive All-Ireland SHC titles from 2020 to 2023.[9]
Career statistics
- As of match played 11 February 2024.
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Limerick | 2019 | Division 1A | 0 | 0-00 | — | — | 0 | 0-00 | ||
| 2020 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | ||
| 2021 | 2 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-00 | ||
| 2022 | 2 | 0-01 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-01 | ||
| 2023 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | ||
| 2024 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | ||
| Career total | 6 | 0-01 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 6 | 0-01 | ||