SAM O’FARRELL is Limerick’s lead team connection with newly crowned All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions Tipperary.
Attached to Nenagh Éire Óg, O’Farrell was ever-present on the championship front for the Premier county this memorable season.
The 20-year-old made his senior debut in a League outing with Galway and featured in nine matches in all across 2025, amassing an impressive 1-10.
He previously disclosed: “It’s an absolute honour to play senior hurling with Tipp, playing and training with your heroes, it’s pinch yourself stuff, pucking backs with Noel and John McGrath, Ronan Maher (captain).”
Aside from duties with Liam Cahill’s side, he captained Brendan Cummins-managed Tipp to win the All-Ireland Under-20 Championship in May, three years on from a similar accomplishment at minor level.
This double achievement had never previously happened with Tipperary.
O’Farrell is a past pupil of Glenstal Abbey School, Murroe.
He is currently a student at University College Galway.
O’Farrell’s dad, Paul (a GP in Nenagh), along with uncles Nicky and Noel, all featured over the years with Na Piarsaigh.
A noted dual-player, Paul captained Na Piarsaigh to win the Limerick Intermediate Championship of 1994, which resulted in the south side club attaining senior status and entry into a competition the light blues subsequently won on eight occasions.
He represented Limerick at minor and under-20 before becoming the first player from Na Piarsaigh to line out at county senior level in 1991.
Nicky is the holder of All-Ireland Under-21 (1987) and National League (1992) medals with Limerick.
Another connection with the holders of the Liam MacCarthy Cup is O’Farrell’s teammate and senior vice-captain Jake Morris (voted Player of the Year by the RTÉ GAA pundits), a nephew of Askeaton-based fledgling National Hunt horse trainer Michael Flannery.
In addition, Tipp’s lauded Performance Coach is Limerick-based Cathal Sheridan, a former star with UL Bohemian and Munster (2013-’17), with whom he is currently Senior Sports Psychologist.
He hails from Sligo.
