TJ Reid

Richie hails from a big sporting family, with brother TJ Reid playing centre forward for Kilkenny Senior Championship club Ballyhale Shamrocks and at inter- ...

The brunette beauty has a 15-year-old son who is also big into his sport. Richie has never publicly confirmed his relationship status. Richie made his first competitive appearance for Kilkenny in 2016, and in February 2022 was nominated as Kilkenny senior hurling captain for this season by his club Ballyhale Shamrocks, with Eoin Cody set for the role of vice-captain. Hurling is in their blood, as Richie and TJ are the nephews of their uncle, also named Richie, who won an All-Ireland with Kilkenny in 1979 and played for Kilkenny and Dublin in his time. Richie hails from a big sporting family, with brother TJ Reid playing centre forward for Kilkenny Senior Championship club Ballyhale Shamrocks and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Team. The 29-year-old sportsman has been playing with Kilkenny Seniors for a number of years, and is from a well known sporting family, with brother TJ Reid being an all-star player, and playing with Kilkenny since 2007.

Man of the Match TJ Reid said Kilkenny simply weren't prepared to lose another All-Ireland hurling semi-final. The Cats followed up their 2019 final defeat ...

We were just focused on one thing, a win today and get a performance." Just a massive effort today and it was needed because Clare were coming off a fantastic year. We were together for the last four weeks, serious training, serious bonding.

The second half of the Leinster final was just over three minutes old when Adrian Mullen collected a low skidder from Richie Reid.

Reid shouldn’t be carrying them in his 15th season in a Kilkenny jersey; it should be the other way around. It wasn’t as if the other forwards were dominating their men and drawing frees for Reid to cash in on – most of the fouls were in midfield or in the Kilkenny half. Cody is next on the list with 2-9, although he offered very little in the Leinster final. One germ of promise for Kilkenny is the fact that they aren’t relying on Reid for goals to quite the same extent as they had been. The days of him being on the hook for 80 per cent of their goals in a season – as he was in 2017 – are fading from view. This year, for the first time since 2016, someone else is at the head of affairs – Martin Keoghan has three goals to Reid’s two. That said, it isn’t all on him all of the time. While it is slightly bewildering that he is still the focal point of the Kilkenny attack, it is hardly surprising either. Tellingly, Richie Power is next on the list with five, despite not having started a game for Kilkenny since the 2014 All-Ireland final. The joy Wexford got out of the Clare full-back line in the quarter-final will have been duly noted on his couch in Ballyhale. Three of them were from behind the Kilkenny 65, one was from midfield. The Leinster final was Reid’s 72nd championship game, moving him past Shefflin at the top of the Kilkenny appearances list.