Damien Hayes

Damien Hayes
Personal information
Damien Hayes playing for Portumna in 2013
Irish name	Damien Ó hAodha
Sport	Hurling
Position	Right Corner Forward
Born	(1982-02-18) 18 February 1982 Ballinasloe, Ireland
Height	1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Occupation	Sales Representative
Club(s)
Years	Club
1999-	Portumna
Club titles
Galway titles	6
Connacht titles	3
All-Ireland Titles	3
Inter-county(ies)*
Years	County	Apps (scores)
2001-2015	Galway	52 (20-85)
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	1
NHL	2
All Stars	3
*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 9 January 2015.

Damien Hayes (born 18 February 1982) is an Irish sportsman. He played as a corner-forward on the Galway senior hurling team from 2001 to 2015.

Hayes was born in Portumna, County Galway^[1] in 1982. He was educated locally and later studied at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) where he won the Ryan Cup. He currently works in the family Volkswagen Car Sales business in Portumna, Al Hayes Motors Ltd.^[2]

Hayes has had much success in the game of hurling. At inter-county he has won 2 All-Ireland minor medals, 2 All-Ireland senior runners-up medals, 2 National hurling League Medals (2004 and 2010) and 3 All-Star Award with Galway and a Railway Cup medal with Connacht. Hayes has also had an extremely successful hurling career at club level with Portumna.

He has won 6 Galway Senior Hurling titles and 3 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship medals in 2006, 2008^[3] and 2009. He also has won 7 Senior League Titles with Portumna. Damien was awarded Connacht provincial Hurler of the year in 2005 and 2006. He has also been Galway's Hurler of the year on 3 occasions 2005, 2006 and 2010. Hayes was on the historic Galway team that won their first leinster title in 2012. He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling in January 2015.^[4]

Rugby union is Hayes's second love and he has previously won an All-Ireland Under-18 medal with Nenagh as a winger.

References

↑ "Hayes: Last-eight loss would be a huge setback". Irish Independent. 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
↑ "Galway All-Stars to get motoring". Hoganstand.com. 2005-12-15. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
↑ "Masterful Portumna are club hurling champions". Hoganstand.com. 2008-03-17. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
↑ "Damien Hayes retires from Galway duty". GAA.ie. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.

Portumna Hurling Squads

Portumna – 2006 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Champions (1st title)

1 I. Canning 2 M. Gill 3 E. McEntee (c) 4 O. Canning 5 G. Heagney 6 M. Ryan 7 A. O'Donnell 8 L. Smith 9 E. Lynch 10 D. Canning 11 K. Hayes 12 A. Smith 13 D. Hayes 14 N. Hayes 15 J. Canning

Portumna – 2008 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Champions (2nd title)

1 I. Canning 2 M. Gill 3 E. McEntee 4 O. Canning (c) 5 G. Heagney 6 M. Ryan 7 P. Smith 8 L. Smith 9 E. Lynch 10 A. Smith 11 K. Hayes 12 N. Hayes 13 D. Hayes 14 J. Canning 15 D. Canning Subs used A. O'Donnell for P. Smith C. Ryan for D. Canning

Portumna – 2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Champions (3rd title)

1 I. Canning 2 M. Dolphin 3 E. McEntee 4 O. Canning (c) 5 G. Heagney 6 M. Ryan 7 A. O'Donnell 8 E. Lynch 9 L. Smith 10 N. Hayes 11 K. Hayes 12 A. Smith 13 D. Hayes 14 J. Canning 15 C. Ryan Subs used D. Canning for C. Ryan M. Gill for G. Heagney P. Smith for L. Smith J. O'Flaherty for E. McEntee P. Treacy for A. O'Donnell

Portumna – 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship runners-up

1 I. Canning 2 A. O'Donnell 3 E. McEntee 4 O. Canning 5 G. Heagney 6 M. Ryan 7 P. Smith 8 L. Smith 9 E. Lynch 10 N. Hayes 11 K. Hayes 12 A. Smith 13 D. Hayes 14 J. Canning 15 M. Dolphin Subs used C. Ryan for E. McEntee C. Ryan for N. Hayes

Portumna – 2014 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Champions (4th title)

1 J. Keane 2 C. O'Hare 3 E. McEntee 4 G. Heagney 5 P. Smith 6 M. Dolphin 7 E. Lynch 8 L. Smith 9 J. Canning 10 K. Hayes 11 D. Hayes 12 O. Canning 13 R. O'Meara 14 N. Hayes 15 A. Smith Subs used O. Treacy for P. Smith N. Dolphin for N. Hayes O. Royston for R. O'Meara Manager F. Canning

Galway Hurling Squads

Galway – 2000 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Champions (5th title)

1 Aidan Diviney
2 B. O'Mahony
3 T. Regan
4 N. Corcoran
5 S. Kavanagh
6 Adrian Diviney
7 A. Cullinane
8 B. Coen
9 G. Farragher
10 R. Murray (c)
11 P. Garvey
12 K. Brady
13 D. Hayes
14 T. Kavanagh
15 D. Greene

Subs: 21 J. Gantley; 18 F. Moore; 24 JP O'Connell

Subs not used: 16 J. O'Leary; 17 E. Lynch; 19 K. Hayes; 20 D. O'Gorman; 22 J. Muldoon; 23 J. Maher

Manager: J. Hardiman

Selectors: J. Moylan; M. Murray; M. Bodkin

Galway – 2002 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Champions (1st title)

1 N. Murphy 2 S. McClearn 3 T. Regan 4 R. Fahy 5 E. Tanian 6 C. Dervan 7 A. Diviney 8 J. Donnelly 9 G. Glynn 10 B. Cunningham 11 J. Campbell 12 K. Brady 13 C. Ryan 14 J. Conroy 15 B. Lawless Subs used D. Hayes

Galway – 2001 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up

Subs used: 17 B. Higgins for D. Hardiman; 22 O. Fahy for J. Rabbiite

Subs not used: 15 D. Hayes; 16 L. Donoghue; 18 E. McDonagh; 19 D. O'Shaughnessy; 21 D. Cloonan; 23 P. Walsh; 24 D. O'Brien

Manager: N. Lane

Coach: J. Connolly
Selector: M. McNamara

Galway – 2005 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up

Subs used: 24 K. Broderick for N. Healy; 26 K. Hayes for Forde

Subs not used: 16 P. Dullaghan; 17 C. Coen; 18 D. Donoghue; 19 L. Hodgins; 20 G. Mahon; 21 D. Hayes; 22 A. Coen; 23 A. Callanan; 25 A. Smith; 27 N. Kenny; 28 T. Tierney

Manager: C. Hayes

Selectors: S. Coen; G. Dempsey; P. Piggott

Coach: S. Silke

Galway – 2010 National Hurling League Champions (9th title)

1 C. Callanan 2 D. Joyce 3 S. Kavanagh (c) 4 O. Canning 5 D. Barry 6 T. Regan 7 D. Collins 8 G. Farragher 9 D. Burke 10 A. Harte 11 C. Donnellan 12 A. Smith 13 D. Hayes 14 J. Canning 15 I. Tannian Subs used J. Gantley for É. Ryan K. Hynes for K. Hayes N. Cahalan for O. Canning Manager J. McIntyre

Galway – 2012 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up

Subs used in replay: 17 J. Cooney for Donohue; 19 J. Glynn for J. Regan; 16 F. Flannery for Skehill; 18 C. Cooney for N. Burke; 20 D. Glennon for Smith

Subs not used: 21 T. Haran; 22 A. Harte; 23 N. Healy; 24 P. Gordon; 25 G. O'Halloran; 26 P. Hoban; 27 C. Callanan

Manager: A. Cunningham

Selectors: M. Kenny; T. Helebert

Connacht – 2013 Inter-Provincial Hurling Championship runners-up

1 C. Callanan 2 J. Coen 3 K. Hynes 4 P. Killeen 5 B. Flaherty 6 D. Collins 7 N. Donohue 8 I. Tannian 9 A. Smith 10 P. Brehony 11 N. Burke 12 C. Donnellan 13 N. Healy 14 J. Canning 15 T. Haran Subs used D. Glennon for P. Brehony J. Glynn for N. Burke J. Cooney for P. Killeen D. Hayes for T. Haran A. Harte for A. Smith Manager A. Cunningham

Awards

2005 All-Star Hurling Team

1 D. FitzGerald 2 P. Mulcahy 3 D. O'Sullivan 4 O. Canning 5 D. Hardiman 6 J. Gardiner 7 S. Óg Ó hAilpín 8 J. O'Connor^HOTY 9 P. Kelly 10 B. O'Connor 11 H. Shefflin 12 T. Walsh 13 G. Farragher 14 E. Kelly 15 D. Hayes

2010 All-Star Hurling Team

1 B. Cummins 2 N. Connors 3 P. Curran 4 J. Tyrrell 5 T. Walsh 6 M. Walsh 7 J. J. Delaney 8 B. Maher 9 M. Fennelly 10 D. Hayes 11 N. McGrath 12 L. Corbett^HOTY 13 J. Mullane 14 R. Power 15 E. Kelly

2012 All-Stars Hurling Team

1 A. Nash 2 P. Murphy 3 J. J. Delaney 4 F. Moore 5 B. Bugler 6 B. Hogan 7 D. Collins 8 I. Tannian 9 K. Moran 10 T. J. Reid 11 H. Shefflin^HOTY 12 D. Hayes 13 J. Mullane 14 J. Canning 15 D. Burke

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