Andrew Kilcullen (born 18 March 2000) is a

dual player Dual player or dual star is a term used in Hiberno-English to describe someone who competes in multiple sports — for example, in Victorian Ireland, cricket and hurling. The term today in Gaelic games typically describes a male player who plays ...

Gaelic games Gaelic games () are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the most popular of the s ...

, i.e.

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

and

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

, who plays for Sligo Championship club

Easkey Easky or Easkey (; ) is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is on the Atlantic coast, from Sligo and from Ballina, County Mayo. The village name derives from the Irish language term for fish () and literally means "abounding in fish", due ...

and at inter-county level for the

Sligo senior hurling team The Sligo county hurling team represents Sligo in hurling and is governed by Sligo GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the Nicky Rackard Cup and the National Hurling League. It formerly competed in the ...

. Born in

County Sligo County Sligo ( , ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region and is part of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in ...

, Kilcullen first played competitive football and hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the

club. He was a part of club's senior hurling team who after an absence of a number of years reformed in 2018, and he has won four

Sligo Senior Hurling Championship The Sligo Senior Hurling Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Sligo GAA among the top hurling clubs in County Sligo. The winner qualifies to represent the county in the Connacht Junior Club Hurling Cham ...

medals with

since then. He also helped his club to its first

Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship The Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship is a hurling competition that comprises the winners of the senior hurling competitions from Sligo and Leitrim along with the Galway champions who receive a bye to the final. The winners of this comp ...

in 2022, scoring the winning point in the final, and also helped his club reach the

All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship The All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship is an annual inter-county club hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) since 2002-03 for eligible hurling clubs. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their per ...

final. Kilcullen was also the top scorer in the

2022–23 All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship The 2022–23 All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship was the 19th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's junior inter county, inter-county club hurling tournament. The championship ran ...

, scoring 4–32 across four games. Andrew Kilcullen Sligo GAA.jpg, Andrew Kilcullen Sligo Jersey Launch 2025 Andrew Kilcullen.jpg, Andrew Kilcullen Sligo Jersey Launch 2025 Andrew_Kilcullen_Hurler.jpg, Andrew Kilcullen playing for Easkey 2023

Honours

;Easkey *

(5): 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 *

(3): 2022, 2023, 2024 *

Sligo Intermediate Football Championship Sligo Intermediate Football Championship is an annual second tier Gaelic Athletic Association competition between Gaelic football clubs organised by Sligo GAA. The winning club qualifies to represent its GAA county in the Connacht Intermediate ...

: 2023 * Sligo Junior Football Championship: 2018 * Connacht Junior Club Football Championship: 2018 ;Sligo *

Nicky Rackard Cup The Nicky Rackard Cup (; often referred to as the Rackard Cup) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The cup forms the fourth-tier of Hurling for senior county teams (the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champi ...

: 2019 *

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: 2021 * Division 3B: 2020 ;Awards * 2022 Christy Ring Cup: Champions 15

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kilcullen, Andrew 2000 births Living people Dual players Easkey hurlers Sligo inter-county hurlers