Tommy O'Connell (Kilkenny hurler)
# Tommy O'Connell (Kilkenny hurler)

Thomas O'Connell (20 October 1939 – 16 May 2019) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a left corner-forward for the Kilkenny senior team.

O'Connell made his first appearance for the team during the 1959 championship and was a semi-regular member of the starting fifteen for the following seven seasons. During that time he won one Leinster winners' medal. He ended up as an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion, after scoring a hat-trick of goals in the final.

At club level O'Connell was a two-time county club championship medalist with Fenians.

