Jim McCarthy (hurler)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Séamus Mac Carthaigh | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Right corner-back | ||
| Born |
15 December 1917 Feenagh, County Limerick, Ireland | ||
| Died |
12 April 1982 (aged 64) Merrion Road, Dublin, Ireland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Occupation | Medical doctor | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Feenagh | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Limerick titles | 0 | ||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
| University College Dublin | |||
| College titles | |||
| Fitzgibbon titles | 1 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
1935-1943 | Limerick | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 2 | ||
| All-Irelands | 2 | ||
| NHL | 3 | ||
James McCarthy (15 December 1917 – 12 April 1982) was an Irish hurler. His career included two All-Ireland Championship success with the Limerick senior hurling team.[1]
Playing career
McCarthy first played hurling for the Feenagh junior team as an 11-year-old before gaining further experience as a boarder at Rockwell College. Here he lined out in back-to-back Harty Cup finals in 1934 and 1935 before winning an All-Ireland medal as part of a star-studded Munster Colleges team that also featured Jack Lynch, John Keane and Connie Buckley. As a medical student at University College Dublin, McCarthy was involved in several Fitzgibbon Cup campaigns and claimed a winners' medal in 1941. After lining out at midfield in the early part of his career he switched to being a goalkeeper on the Limerick junior team that won the 1935 All-Ireland Junior Championship. McCarthy's performances at junior level earned at immediate call-up to the Limerick senior team with whom he won National League, Munster and All-Ireland honours in his debut season in 1936. He won a further two National League medals over the course of the following two seasons before winning a Limerick Junior Championship with Feenagh in 1938. McCarthy won a second set of Munster and All-Ireland medals as a full member of the starting fifteen in 1940. He also earned inclusion on the Munster inter-provincial team and won back-to-back Railway Cup medals in 1942 and 1943.[citation needed]
Honours
- University College Dublin
- Fitzgibbon Cup (1): 1941
- Feenagh
- Limerick Junior Hurling Championship (1): 1938
- Limerick
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1936 (c), 1940
- Munster Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1936 (c), 1940
- National Hurling League (3): 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38
- All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship (1): 1935
- Munster Junior Hurling Championship (1): 1935
- Munster
- Railway Cup (2): 1942, 1943
References
- ^ "Limerick 1940". Finbarr Connolly website. Retrieved 26 December 2018.