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waterford institute of technology left wing-back 14:01 , 6 december 2014 6 march 1982 hurling 8 fenians 5 j. j. delaney sales rep j. j. delaney johnstown , county kilkenny , ireland 11 kilkenny hurling 6 11 kilkenny 2001 -- 2014 9 leinster j. j. delaney
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j. j. delaney

j. j. delaney -lrb- born 6 march 1982 -rrb- is an irish hurler who played as a left wing-back and full-back for the kilkenny senior team .
born in johnstown , county kilkenny , delaney first excelled at hurling during his schooling at coláiste mhuire .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the kilkenny minor team , before later joining the under-21 side .
he made his senior debut during the 2001 championship .
delaney immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen , and won nine all-ireland medals , eleven leinster medals and eight national league medals on the field of play .
he was an all-ireland runner-up on two occasions .
as a member of the leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions , delaney won two railway cup medals .
at club level delaney continues to play with fenians .
delaney 's uncles , billy fitzpatrick and pat delaney , won nine all-ireland medals between them between 1969 and 1983 , while his father , shem delaney , shared in one of these all-ireland successes as a non-playing substitute .
his first cousin , p. j. delaney , won an all-ireland medal in 1993 .
throughout his career delaney made 66 championship appearances , setting him out as the third most `` capped '' player of all-time .
he announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 5 december 2014 .
delaney is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time .
in 2003 he won the first of six all-star awards , while he also made a clean sweep of all the top individual awards , winning the all-star , texaco and gpa hurler of the year awards .
delaney was also chosen as one of the 125 greatest hurlers of all-time in a 2009 poll .
that same year he was chosen on the leinster team of the past twenty-five years .
