 During that time he won one Oireachtas medal and one Thomond Feis medal, and was a Munster final runner-up on two occasions.At club level Smyth was a five-time county club championship medallist with Ruan.After retirement from play Smyth, in 1984 he was named on a special Hurling Team of the Century made up of players never to have won an All-Ireland medal.