Brendan Hennessey is a member of one of Kerry's greatest hurling families from Ballyduff. Seven boys and two girls, all the boys played with Ballyduff and between them they won the massive total of 38 Kerry senior hurling county championchip medals. Brendan was a star Kerry hurler and when he immigrated to New York in the fifties he starred as the city played the top teams in Ireland. In 1958 both he and his brother Michael were chosen as man of the match in that National League final against Wexford.

Amazingly this terrific sporting story of Kerry's Brendan Hennessey may be the one and only hour long interview ever done with a Kerry hurler. There was participation for New York in the National League in the early fifties and right through the sixties, with one revival in 1989. New York also took part in the St. Brendan Cup from 1954 until 1960. This was a special tournament where New York took on the National League winners in football and hurling in the September and October months, with the home venue alternating each year. The hurling squad lost to Cork in the Polo Grounds in New York on October 31,1954 on a scoreline of 7-08 to 3-10, and to Tipperary in Croke Park on October 9,1955 on a scoreline of 4-17 to 4-7.

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