Jim Dermody

Jim Dermody

Personal information
Irish name	Séamus Ó Diarmada
Sport	Hurling
Position	Goalkeeper
Born	(1898-09-01)1 September 1898 Three Castles, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Died	9 February 1975(1975-02-09) (aged 76) Liverpool, England
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Threecastles Tullaroan
Club titles
Kilkenny titles	1
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1922-1934	Kilkenny
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	4
All-Irelands	2
NHL	1

James Dermody (1 September 1898 – 9 February 1975) was an Irish hurler. His league and championship career as a goalkeeper with the Kilkenny senior team lasted several years between 1922 and 1934.^[1]

Born in Three Castles, County Kilkenny, Dermody first played hurling with the local Threecastles club. After a period playing for the Kilkenny club in New York, he returned to Ireland and joined the Tullaroan club with whom he won a county championship medal in 1930.^{[citation needed]}

Dermody first played for Kilkenny as a replacement for the absent Mark McDonald in 1922. He lined out for the team in the earlier rounds of the championship, winning a Leinster medal, but missed the subsequent All-Ireland victory. After almost a decade away from the inter-county scene, Dermody returned as first-choice Kilkenny goalkeeper in 1931. Over the course of the following four seasons he won two All-Ireland medals and three further Leinster medals.^{[citation needed]}

As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Dermody won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1932, as captain, and 1933. He had earlier represented the United States team in the 1928 Tailteann Games.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

Tullaroan

• Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1930

Kilkenny

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1932, 1933
• Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (4): 1922, 1931 (c), 1932, 1933

Leinster

• Railway Cup (2): 1932 (c), 1933

References

1. "Obituary: Jim Dermody". Finbarr Connolly website. Retrieved 29 May 2018.