High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael `Babs` Keating (born 17 April 1944 in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a retired Irish hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local club Ballybacon-Grange and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s. Keating is regarded as a ‘larger-than-life’ figure in the GAA world for the last three decades.