Jim McCarthy (hurler)

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]

Jim McCarthy
Personal information
Irish name Séamus Mac Carthaigh
Sport Hurling
Position Right corner-back
Born (1917-12-15)15 December 1917
Feenagh, County Limerick, Ireland
Died 12 April 1982(1982-04-12) (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

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.

Honours
University College Dublin
Feenagh
Limerick
Munster

References
  1. "Limerick 1940". Finbarr Connolly website. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
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