Adrian Timothy Mannix also known as "Turkey" (born 1988 in
St. Finbarrs Hospital,
Cork City
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,
County Cork
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) is an
Irish
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***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
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sportsperson. He plays
hurling
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with his local club
Kilworth
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and was a member of the
Cork senior inter-county team in 2009.
Mannix was a star player for Cork at minor level. He won back-to-back
Munster
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minor titles in 2005 and 2006. In 2009 he played a prominent role with
Cork IT
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and the team reached the
Fitzgibbon Cup
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The Fitzgibbon Cup competition is administered ...
semi-finals.
At club level, Mannix was described as Kilworth's star forward. His "outstanding" form in Kilworth's march to the 2006
Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship
The Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Munster GAA Hurling Junior Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association and conteste ...
title earned him a call-up to Cork's provisional 2007 senior county squad.
/ref> He also turned in an inspirational performance in Kilworth's All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship is an annual inter-county club hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) since 2002-03 for eligible hurling clubs. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their per ...
quarter-final victory over British junior champions Granuaile.
After the 2008 Cork senior panel's refusal to play under the management of Gerald McCarthy, Mannix was among the players called up in their place by McCarthy. In Cork's first game of the National Hurling League
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, he turned in an impressive performance against Dublin
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, and retained his place on the team to play Tipperary
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**South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel
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. Mannix again started and scored in the next match, against Galway
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.
References
1988 births
Living people
Cork inter-county hurlers
Kilworth hurlers
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