Colin Corkery

Colin Corkery (born 5 January 1971) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Nemo Rangers and at senior level for the Cork county team from 1993 until 2004. He came to prominence with the Nemo Rangers minor team that won the Cork Minor Football Championship in 1989, and with the club he won county championship titles and Munster club titles, finally collecting a second All-Ireland club winners' medal in the 2002 final after scoring six points, having lost two earlier finals. He won an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship medal with Cork in 1989, spent 1990 playing Australian rules football with Carlton, and made his senior championship debut in 1993 by scoring 2-5 against Clare. He won four Munster medals, captaining Cork to the 2002 provincial title after returning to football following a heart condition, received an All-Star award after the 1993 All-Ireland final defeat by Derry, played for Munster in the inter-provincial competition in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and retired from inter-county football after the 2004 championship.