The big interview with Timmy Hammersley: Finding your voice - and using it for good

From overcoming a childhood stutter to dealing with crippling self-doubt during his playing career, former Tipperary hurler Timmy Hammersley is now using the lessons learned from those experiences to help others 

Former Tipperary hurler Timmy Hammersly. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Listening to Timmy Hammersley’s story and message, it echoes the opening page of a new book for young people from his friend Tony Griffin: I HAVE A VOICE GOD DAMMIT!

And a bit like John Farnham urged in the same year Hammersley was born and Richard Stakelum declared Tipp’s Munster famine as over, he maintains that with your voice you should make a noise and make it clear. Not sit in silence, not live with fear, as he sometimes did when he was younger.