icposition icupdate birth_date code nhl club name occupation birth_place county sport clposition icprovince counties icyears icallireland province article_title clcounty
left corner-forward 16:41 , 28 june 2014 1931 hurling 0 slieverue dick rockett farmer slieverue , county kilkenny , ireland kilkenny hurling midfield 2 kilkenny 1953-1959 1 leinster dick rockett
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dick rockett

richard `` dick '' rockett -lrb- born 1931 -rrb- is an irish retired hurler who played as a right wing-forward for the kilkenny senior team .
born in slieverue , county kilkenny , rockett first excelled at hurling during his schooling at de la salle college .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he first linked up with the kilkenny junior team .
he made his senior debut in the 1953-54 national league .
rockett played a key role for the team for the next few years and won one all-ireland medal and two leinster medals .
rockett also represented the leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions , winning one railway cup medal .
at club level he was a one-time championship medallist with slieverue .
his retirement came prior to the start of the 1959 championship .
