John Mullane (born 28 January 1981)[1] is an Irish hurler who previously played as a right corner-forward for the Waterford senior team.
After few victories in the minor and under-21 grades, Mullane lined out in his first championship decider in 2005 as De La Salle faced Ballygunner.
At the final whistle De La Salle were the champions by 0–11 to 0–9 and Mullane collected his first county championship medal.
[3] De La Salle subsequently represented Waterford in the provincial series and even reached the final.
[8] Mullane began his inter-county career as a member of the Waterford minor and under-21 hurling team in the late nineties, however, he had little success in these grades.
In that game Mullane became one of the very few players to have scored a hat-trick of goals in a Munster hurling final, however, Waterford still lost the match.
Only a few minutes into the second-half of the game the referee noticed an "off the ball incident" between Cork's Brian Murphy and Mullane.
In 2007 Mullane added a National Hurling League medal to his collection when Waterford defeated Kilkenny by 0–20 to 0–18 in the final.
2008 began poorly for Waterford as the team lost their opening game to Clare as well as their manager Justin McCarthy.
In spite of this poor start Mullane's side reached the All-Ireland final for the first time in forty-five years.
A 2–15 apiece draw was the result on that occasion, however, Waterford went on to win the replay after an extra-time goal by Dan Shanahan.
In January 2013 Mullane announced his retirement from inter county hurling declaring that I just felt in the end that mentally it just broke me – I had enough.
Each week Mullane presented a modern-day version of "The Skills of Hurling", a show from the late 1970s which featured a young Brian Cody and other players from that era.