Jimmy Smyth Gaelic games player
James "Jimmy" Smyth (1 January 1931 – 9 February 2013) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-forward for the Clare senior team.Smyth made his first appearance for the team during the 1948-49 National Hurling League and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1967 championship. During that time he enjoyed little success, winning one Oireachtas medal and one Thomond Feis medal. A Munster final runner-up on two occasions, Smyth is regarded as one of the greatest players never to have won an All-Ireland medal.At club level Smyth was a five-time county club championship medallist with Ruan.In retirement from play Smyth came to be regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time. In 1984 he was named on a special Hurling Team of the Century made up of players never to have won an All-Ireland medal. In 2000 he was named on the Munster Hurling Team of the Millennium.