Bernard Rochford

Bernard Rochford, born in 1979, is an Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Cork and Kerry senior teams. He first appeared as sub-goalie on the Cork senior team in the 1999 championship and was second-choice keeper for four seasons from 1999 to 2002, winning two Munster medals as a non-playing substitute in 1999 and 2000. He joined the Kerry senior hurling team in 2010 and played four seasons, making three Christy Ring final appearances and winning the competition in 2010, and in 2013 won a Christy Ring Cup All Star award. He is the only hurler to have won both an All-Ireland winners' medal, as a non-playing substitute, and a Christy Ring Cup winners' medal. With Cork he won an intermediate All-Ireland in 2001 and an under-21 All-Ireland in 1998 and played minor in 1997. At club level with Killeagh he won a Junior A County title in 1995 and an Intermediate County title in 2001, and he made his international debut against Scotland in the international shinty series in 2012.