Charlie McCarthy (Gaelic footballer)

Charlie McCarthy, born in Gneeveguilla in County Kerry, played Gaelic football with his local club Gneeveguilla. At the age of nineteen he was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team during the 1996 championship campaign, a year in which Kerry won their first Munster Championship since 1991. He was part of the Kerry team that won the 1995 and 1996 All-Ireland under-21 titles and he won an All-Ireland minor medal with Kerry in 1994, the last time Kerry won the All-Ireland minor competition, playing at centre back and winning the man of the match award in that game. He won three consecutive Kerry Senior County Championship medals with East Kerry in 1997, 1998 and 1999.