Joe Canning is a five-time All-Star hurler. In 2017 he won a senior All- Ireland medal for Galway, defeating Waterford to bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup back across the Shannon into Galway for the first time in 29 years and earning the Hurler of the Year award. Joe won back-to-back minor All Irelands and an under-21 in 2007, the same year that he won a Fitzgibbon medal with Limerick IT. He also had a hugely successful club career with Portumna, winning four All-Irelands. He retired in July 2021 and now works in hospitality, enjoying his passion for golf in his spare time. He lives in Limerick with his wife Meg and daughter Josie. Joe continues to play for his club, Portumna, and is a selector for Galway’s under-20 hurlers.
The youngest of seven children from a hurling-obsessed Portumna family, Joe Canning was steeped in the game from birth. Regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy, he burst onto the national radar aged just 19, scoring 2–12 for Galway in a narrow defeat...
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