Paul O'Connor (29 March 1963 – 20 September 2012) was an
Irish hurler who played as a midfielder for the
Cork
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senior team.
O'Connor joined the panel during the
1986 championship and became a regular player over the following three seasons. During that time he failed to claim any honours. He hurled for Cork between 1987 and 1990 but was deprived of an All-Ireland medal after suffering a serious knee injury just months before Cork's famous "double" of the Liam McCarthy and Sam Maguire Cups. But for this serious injury, O'Connor would have been one of the outstanding hurlers of the 1990s.
At club level O'Connor was a two-time
county club championship medalist with
Na Piarsaigh
Na Piarsaigh are a hurling and Gaelic football club based in the north side of Cork City, Ireland.
History
Formation
In 1943 a group of idealistic young men drawn mostly from the hurling nursery of North Mon laid the foundations of Cumann I ...
.
With
University College Cork O'Connor won five consecutive
Fitzgibbon Cup winners' medals. He is regarded as one of the competition's greatest-ever players.
References
1963 births
2012 deaths
Cork inter-county hurlers
Hurling managers
Na Piarsaigh hurlers
UCC hurlers
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