Liam Currams

{{short description|Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler}}

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| name = Liam Currams

| irish = Liam Ó Corráim

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| birth_place = Kilcormac, County Offaly, Ireland

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| county = Offaly

| province = Leinster

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| clpositionh = Forward

| clpositionf = Forward

| clubs = Kilcormac–Killoughey

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| counties = Offaly (F)
Offaly (H)

| icpositionh = Midfield

| icpositionf= Left wing-back

| icyears = 1980–1986
1980–1985

| icapps(points) = 14 (0–1)
8 (0–10)

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| icallirelandh= 1

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| icupdate = 23:42, 8 August 2012

| birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|1|26}}

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Liam Currams (born 26 January 1961) is an Irish former hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder and left wing-back for both Offaly senior teams. His inter-county career lasted from 1980 until 1986.{{cite web|url=http://offaly.gaa.ie/history/all-ireland-winning-teams|title=All-Ireland Winning Teams|publisher=Offaly GAA website|accessdate=8 August 2012}}

Currams holds a unique place in the annals of Gaelic games in Offaly as a successful dual player at the highest levels. He has won one All-Ireland medal and two Leinster medals in hurling, while has also won one All-Ireland medal and three Leinster medals in football.{{cite web|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Offaly/Profile.aspx|title=Offaly GAA profile|publisher=Hogan Stand website|accessdate=9 April 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804190409/http://hoganstand.com/Offaly/Profile.aspx|archivedate=4 August 2014}}

Currams has a number of personal achievements.

He is one of only four players to have won All Stars Awards in both hurling and football.

He is the only Offaly player to do so.

At club level Currams played with Kilcormac–Killoughey.

He lives in County Donegal.{{cite news|first=Declan|last=Bonner|authorlink=Declan Bonner|title=Joined-up thinking is needed going forward|work=Donegal News|date=7 May 2020|page=55|quote=That Offaly team was full of great characters, and one of them Liam Currams, who lives in Donegal, is the only player from his home county to win All Stars in hurling (1981) and football (1982).}}

References

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{{Offaly Hurling Team 1981}}

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{{1981 Hurling All Stars}}

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Category:1961 births

Category:Living people

Category:Dual players

Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners

Category:All Stars Awards winners (football)

Category:All Stars Awards winners (hurling)

Category:Dual players

Category:Kilcormac-Killoughey Gaelic footballers

Category:Kilcormac-Killoughey hurlers

Category:Offaly inter-county Gaelic footballers

Category:Offaly inter-county hurlers

Category:Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football)

Category:20th-century Irish sportsmen

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