Dick Walsh
Athlete
1878 – 1958
Who was Dick Walsh?
Richard "Dick" Walsh, nicknamed "Drug", was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-back for the Kilkenny senior team.
Walsh made his first appearance for the team during the 1904 championship and was a regular member of the starting seventeen until his retirement after the 1914 championship. During that time he won seven All-Ireland medals and seven Leinster medals. Walsh captained Kilkenny to three All-Ireland titles in 1907, 1909 and 1913.
At club level Walsh won four county club championship medals with Mooncoin.
Doyle's brothers also played hurling for Kilkenny. Together Dick, Mick and Ned Doyle won nineteen All-Ireland medals, eighteen of them on the field of play.
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