Adrian Mannix

Adrian Mannix, known as Turkey and born in 1988 in Cork city, is an Irish sportsman who plays hurling with his local club Kilworth and was a member of the Cork senior team in 2009. A star player for Cork at minor level, he won back-to-back Munster minor titles in 2005 and 2006, and in 2009 played a prominent role with Cork IT as the team reached the Fitzgibbon Cup semi-finals. At club level he was described as Kilworth's star forward and turned in an inspirational performance in Kilworth's All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship quarter-final victory over the British junior champions Granuaile. After the 2008 Cork senior panel refused to play under manager Gerald McCarthy, Mannix was among the players called up in their place, impressed in Cork's first National Hurling League game against Dublin, kept his place against Tipperary, and started and scored in the next match against Galway.