James Loughlin "Locky" Byrne (28 April 1913 – 18 January 1941) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-forward at senior level for the Kilkenny and Waterford county teams.
As a member of the Munster and Leinster inter-provincial teams on a number of occasions, Byrne won one Railway Cup medal.
At club level he played with Ferrybank, Slieverue, Mooncoin and Mount Sion, winning several championship medals.
[1] The son of a railyard worker called James "Dashy" Byrne, he was raised in Ferrybank on the Waterford-Kilkenny border.
He was only fifteen years-old when he won a Munster Minor Hurling Championship title in 1929 following a 7-5 to 0-2 thrashing of Tipperary.
In eight minutes of injury time, Cork scored an equalising point and the game ended in a draw.
At the beginning of the second-half Lory Meagher sent over a huge point from midfield giving Kilkenny a lead which they wouldn't surrender.
Not only was it Byrne's first Munster Senior Hurling Championship medal, but it was also the first time that Waterford had won the provincial title.
Waterford later accounted for Galway allowing Byrne's side to advance to their first-ever All-Ireland final.