Claus Dunne (born 1944) is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Mooncoin and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1960s. He played on Kilkenny's 1967 and 1969 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship teams. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
Athlete