Des Foley
Desmond Foley( 12 September 1940 – 5 February 1995) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler of the 1950s and 1960s.
He was also a politician and represented Fianna Fáil in Dáil Éireann.
Eamonn Barry
Eamonn Barry is a former Irish Gaelic football manager from County Meath.
He has two sons, they are Andrew and Kevin.
Tony Browne
Tony Browne( born 1 July 1973) is an Irish hurler who played as a right wing- back for the Waterford senior team from 1991 until his retirement from inter-county hurling in 2014.
Browne made his first appearance for the team during the 1991 – 92 National League and immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen.
During his inter-county career, he won four Munster winners' medals and one National League winners' medal.
He ended up as an All- Ireland runner- up on one occasion.
At club level Browne is a one- time Munster medalist with Mount Sion.
In addition to this he has won seven county club championship medals.
Browne has a number of personal achievements, including being the most" capped" Waterford hurler of all- time.
He won three All- Star awards and, in 1998, he became the first Waterford player to be named All- Star Hurler of the Year.
In 2009 he was chosen on the Munster team of the past twenty- five years.
Kevin Canty (hurler)
Kevin Canty( born 1986) is an Irish hurler who currently plays as a midfielder for the London senior team.
Canty first came to prominence on the inter- county scene when he made his debut for the Cork senior team in the 2007 championship.
He remained on the panel for just two seasons.
He subsequently joined the London team during the 2011 Nicky Rackard Cup, and secured a Nicky Rackard Cup medal that same year.
At club level Canty began his career with Valley Rovers.
He currently plays with the St. Gabriel's club in London.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Damien Hayes
Damien Hayes( born 18 February 1982) is an Irish sportsman.
He played as a corner- forward on the Galway senior hurling team from 2001 to 2015.
Hayes was born in Portumna, County Galway in 1982.
He was educated locally and later studied at Limerick Institute of Technology( LIT) where he won the Ryan Cup.
He currently works in the family Volkswagen Car Sales business in Portumna, Al Hayes Motors Ltd.
Hayes has had much success in the game of hurling.
At inter-county he has won 2 All- Ireland minor medals, 2 All- Ireland senior runners- up medals, 2 National hurling League Medals( 2004 and 2010) and 3 All- Star Award with Galway and a Railway Cup medal with Connacht.
Hayes has also had an extremely successful hurling career at club level with Portumna.
He has won 6 Galway Senior Hurling titles and 3 All- Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship medals in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
He also has won 7 Senior League Titles with Portumna.
Damien was awarded Connacht provincial Hurler of the year in 2005 and 2006.
He has also been Galway's Hurler of the year on 3 occasions 2005, 2006 and 2010.
Hayes was on the historic Galway team that won their first leinster title in 2012.
He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling in January 2015.
Rugby union is Hayes's second love and he has previously won an All- Ireland Under- 18 medal with Nenagh as a winger.
Masaaki Shimakawa
Shimakawa was a member of the Tainan Air Group at the beginning of the Pacific War.
Often assigned as a wingman to legendary ace Saburō Sakai, Shimakawa fought in the conquest of the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies campaign.
In April 1942, Shimakawa was transferred to the aircraft carrier" Kaga's" fighter group, with which he participated in the Battle of Midway.
Surviving the loss of his carrier at Midway, Shimakawa was reassigned to the 204th Air Group with which he was assigned to the Solomon Islands campaign in August 1942.
Based on Bougainville, Shimakawa and his comrades frequently tangled with the Cactus Air Force over Guadalcanal during the battle for that island.
Stricken with malaria, Shimakawa was evacuated to Japan in March 1943.
After recovering from his illness, Shimakawa served as an instructor pilot with the Omura Air Group and various other units until the war ended in September 1945.
Shimakawa died on 25 September 1997.
Mike Faiola
Mike Faiola is an American actor.
He is best known for playing the role of Eric in" Quarterlife" and Kevin Hamilton in" Awkward".
Cathal Parlon
Cathal Parlon plays his Senior Club Hurling with Coolderry in Offaly.
He attended Waterford Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2007, graduating with a B.Sc. in architectural technology.
In 2011 he won Leinster Club Hurler of the Year when Coolderry reached the Club All- Ireland final.
Kevin Canty (author)
Kevin Canty( born January 17, 1953) is an American novelist and short story writer.
He is a faculty member in the English department at the University of Montana at Missoula, where he currently resides.
Canty received his master's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1990.
He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1993.

Question: Were Masaaki Shimakawa and Kevin Canty (Hurler) of the same nationality?
Answer: no