 Former Galway minor hurler and Meelick-Eyrecourt player Niall Corcoran, from Clonfert, currently plays on the Dublin senior hurling team and has played several times in the Leinster hurling championship.In 2011 he won a National Senior Hurling League medal with Dublin, playing corner back on the capital's team which defeated Kilkenny.Sean Silke and Brendan Lynskey are holders of All-Star awards and both won All-Ireland hurling final winners medals with the Galway senior hurling panel in the 1980s.