At club level he played with Kilruane MacDonaghs and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Gibson first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Kilruane MacDonaghs club.
He claimed his first inter-county silverware after giving a man of the match display in the 1987 Munster final replay defeat of Cork.
[5] Gibson added a National Hurling League title to collection in 1988 before winning a second successive Munster SHC medal.
[6] He was an unused substitute when Tipperary were beaten by Galway in the 1988 All-Ireland final.