death_date children icposition icupdate birth_date wife code nhl club death_place name occupation fullname birth_place county sport nickname clposition icprovince counties icyears icallireland siblings province article_title clcounty irish
27 march 2015 -lrb- aged 70 -rrb- two paul daughters claire and laura two sons liam and centre-forward 13:11 , 29 march 2015 1944 lillian dunne hurling 1 mooncoin newrath , county waterford , ireland nicholas `` claus '' dunne irish shell driver claus dunne mooncoin , county kilkenny , ireland kilkenny hurling and soccer claus forward 2 kilkenny 1965-1973 2 sister irene leinster claus dunne
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claus dunne

nicholas `` claus '' dunne -lrb- 1944 - 27 march 2015 -rrb- was an irish hurler who played as a centre-forward for kilkenny .
born in mooncoin , county kilkenny , dunne first excelled at hurling in his youth .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he first linked up with the kilkenny under-21 .
he made his senior debut during the 1964-65 league .
dunne went on to enjoy a successful career with kilkenny and won two all-ireland medals , two leinster medals and one national hurling league medal .
he was an all-ireland runner-up on two occasions .
as a member of the leinster inter-provincial team , dunne won one railway cup medal .
at club level he was a one-time championship medallist with mooncoin .
dunne made 12 championship appearances .
he retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1973 championship .
