Con Roche

Con Roche, formally Cornelius Roche, is an Irish former hurler, manager and selector, born in 1946, who played for the Cork Senior Championship club St Finbarr's and was a member of the Cork senior hurling team for ten years, usually lining out as a left wing-back. He began at club level with St Finbarr's, breaking onto the senior team at seventeen in 1963, and the club won the Cork Championship in 1965, 1968, 1974 and 1977, with the highlight of his club career coming in 1975 when he was at midfield on the All-Ireland Championship-winning team. At inter-county level he was part of the Cork minor team that won the All-Ireland in 1964, won an All-Ireland with the under-21 team in 1966 and joined the senior team in 1965. He was ever-present in the half-back line from his debut and won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship with Cork in 1970.