GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail has expressed his condolences on behalf of the Association to the family of Mickey 'The Rattler' Byrne, who passed away yesterday aged 93.

Named at right corner back on the Tipperary Hurling Team of the Millennium in 1999, 'The Rattler' was a legendary figure who won five All-Ireland medals with the Premier County as well as an incredible 14 county senior hurling championship medals with his beloved Thurles Sarsfields.

"Mickey, forever known as 'The Rattler', was synonymous with a golden era for hurling in Tipperary," the GAA president said in a statement.

"His personal honours list is one most counties would be proud of and his contribution to Tipperary GAA and by extension the Association as a whole, was enormous.

"It is characters such as him that embed the GAA and our games in the minds of young people, generation after generation, and I express my sympathies and those of Cumann Lúthchleas Gael to his family and friends, his club Thurles Sarsfields and of course the people of Tipperary on losing one of their greats."

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