Tom or Tommy Healy (1855 in Littleton,

County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...

– ?) was an Irish sportsperson. He played

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with his local club

Thurles Sarsfields Thurles Sarsfields is a Tipperary GAA club which is located in County Tipperary, Ireland. Both hurling and Gaelic football are played in the "Mid-Tipperary" divisional competitions. The club is centred in the town of Thurles at Semple Stadium. T ...

and was a member of the very first

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inter-county team in 1887. Tommy Healy was born in Coolcroo, Littleton,

in 1855. He was noted as a fine sportsperson and represented his native Thurles hurling club in the 1880s. In 1887 he won a Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship title with the club, and was consequently picked, with the rest of the team, to represent

in the inaugural

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. Healy's most notable moment came when he scored the very first goal in an

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. This happened in the 1887 final, when Tipperary played against

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. Healy took a pass from team captain

Jim Stapleton James Stapleton (1863 – 18 March 1949) was an Irish people, Irish hurling, hurler who played as a forward for the Tipperary GAA, Tipperary senior team. Stapleton made his first appearance for the team during the All-Ireland Senior Hurling C ...

and made no mistake in sending a low, hard drive to the back of the opposition's net.

Teams

References

* Corry, Eoghan, ''The GAA Book of Lists'' (Hodder Headline Ireland). 1855 births Year of death missing Thurles Sarsfields hurlers Tipperary inter-county hurlers All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners {{Tipperary-hurling-bio-stub