Irish hurling manager, selector, trainer, and coach
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Cyril Farrell
Personal information
Irish name
Coireall Ó Fearghail
Sport
Hurling
Born
1950 (age 73–74) Galway, Ireland
Occupation
Retired secondary school principal
Inter-county management
Years
Team
1979–1982 1984–1991 1996–1998
Galway Galway Galway
Inter-county titles
County
League
Province
All-Ireland
Galway
2
2
3
Cyril Farrell (born 1 August 1950) is an Irish former hurling manager, selector, trainer and coach. He was the manager of the senior Galway county team on three separate occasions, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager and most successful in terms of major titles won.[1]
After being involved in team management and coaching in all grades at club level with Tommy Larkin's, as well as with the Galway minor and under-21 teams, Farrell was appointed coach of the Galway senior team for the first time in 1979. As manager at various times over much of the following twenty years, he led Galway through a period of unprecedented national dominance, winning seven major honours. These include three All-Ireland Championships, including back-to-back titles in 1987 and 1988, two Connacht Championships and two National Hurling Leagues.
Farrell regularly appears as a hurling pundit on RTÉ's The Sunday Game.
He won a Fitzgibbon Cup with University College Galway in 1977.[2]
^"Galway turn to Farrell". Irish Times. 20 September 1996. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
^Moran, Seán (15 February 2017). "Degrees of neglect: the impossible world of third-level GAA: The compromising of UCD's Fitzgibbon Cup bid another result of current fixture chaos". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 February 2017. The late Joe McDonagh is to be commemorated at the end of this month when his alma mater NUI Galway, formerly UCG, hosts the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend. There will be a dinner on Friday week at which contemporaries from the 1977 Fitzgibbon will honour the memory of the former GAA president, who represented his college in both football and hurling. Publicity for the event includes the information that four members of that UCG side, including McDonagh himself, went on to lead their counties around Croke Park on All-Ireland final day; three of them, Conor Hayes and Pat Fleury who would also manage finalists, and Joe Connolly lifted the Liam MacCarthy. Another member of the team was Cyril Farrell, who managed Galway to back-to-back titles.
CyrilFarrell (born 1 August 1950) is an Irish former hurling manager, selector, trainer and coach. He was the manager of the senior Galway county team...
J. Carey, Éamonn Cregan, Anthony Daly, John Doyle, Michael Duignan, CyrilFarrell, Davy Fitzgerald, Paul Flynn, Pete Finnerty, Pat Hartigan, Pat Henderson...
good a goal as you are likely to see." Former Galway hurling manager CyrilFarrell said during the course of his TV match commentary: "That's as good a...
Michael Lyster with analysis by Ger Loughnane, Henry Shefflin, and CyrilFarrell. Commentary on the game was provided by Ger Canning alongside Michael...
had a huge work-rate and, thankfully, things paid off in the end." CyrilFarrell writing in the Irish Independent was impressed by the Tipperary performance...
named as the man of the match by Sunday Game pundits Eddie Brennan and CyrilFarrell, Seamus Callanan and Cathal Barrett were also nominated. 10 July 16:00...
while Connacht defeated Munster in that year's Railway Cup final. CyrilFarrell was Galway's senior county hurling team manager for the 1980 championship...
Michael Lyster with analysis by Ger Loughnane, Henry Shefflin, and CyrilFarrell. Commentary on the game was provided by Darragh Maloney alongside Michael...
presented by Michael Lyster from Croke Park, with studio analysis from CyrilFarrell, Tomás Mulcahy and Ger Loughnane. Match commentary was provided by Ger...
Connolly lifted the Liam MacCarthy. Another member of the team was CyrilFarrell, who managed Galway to back-to-back titles. "NUI Galway take Fitzgibbon...
Munster hurling final". The 42. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018. "CyrilFarrell: Improving Banner men show they can go distance". Irish Independent...
Griffin (Wexford), P. J. O'Grady (Limerick), Ger Loughnane (Clare), CyrilFarrell (Galway), Jimmy O'Reilly (Down), Willie Ring (Cork), Pat Daly (GAA Games...
Connolly - Hurling Joseph Cooney - Hurling Anthony Cunningham - Hurling CyrilFarrell - Hurling Pat Fleury - Hurling Francis Forde - Hurling John Hanbury...
Year 1971 Succeeded by Eddie Keher (Kilkenny) Achievements Preceded by CyrilFarrell (Galway) All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final winning manager 1989 Succeeded by...
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