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19 caps for Ireland, the Barbarians and a junior hurling title with Clonaslee – the amazing sporting career of Gerry Culliton

Gerry Culliton (right) during his playing days with Ireland in the early 1960s and left at an event in 2008

The career of Clonaslee’s Gerry Culliton is one of the great Laois sports stories. Not long after Gerry Culliton finished his school days in Cistercian College Roscrea, he heard on the grapevine that he was on the verge of a call-up to the Laois senior hurling team. In the mid 1950s, just a few years…