Tom Cheasty (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Cheasty (1934-2007) was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Ballyduff Lower-Portlaw and with the Waterford senior inter-county team in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded as one of Waterford's greatest-ever players.Tom Cheasty was born in Ballyduff Lower, County Waterford in 1934. He was brought up on the family farm where he developed a strong, muscular frame which earned him the nickname of the 'iron man' and was a formidable bustling centre-forward in both hurling and Gaelic football games, using his strength and guile to great effect.On January 30, 2007 Cheasty was profiled on the TG4 television programme Laochra Gael.