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Irish hurler
Tom "Honest Man" Coughlan
(born 1881) was an
Irish
hurler
who played as a centre-back for the
Cork
senior team.
Coughlan joined the team during the
1901 championship
and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the
1911 championship
. During that time he captained the team on numerous occasions and won two
All-Ireland
medals and four
Munster
medals.
[1]
[2]
At club level Coughlan was a multiple
county club championship
medalist with
Blackrock
.
[
citation needed
]
Coughlan came from a family of other hurlers, and his brothers,
Pat
,
Denis
and
Dan
, all won All-Ireland medals with Cork. His nephews,
Eudie
and
John
, were also All-Ireland medalists in the 1920s and 1930s.
[3]
References
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edit
]
Cork ? 1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions (5th title)
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Partial Reference:
Cork GAA website
Inter-County SHC Results and Teams.
1900-1909
Information from Peter Devine. Accessed 17 July 2010.
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Cork ? 1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions (6th title)
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Partial Reference:
Cork GAA website
Inter-County SHC Results and Teams.
1900-1909
Information from Peter Devine. Accessed 17 July 2010.
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