Dave McCarthy (Gaelic footballer)

David McCarthy, known as Dave, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer, born in 1949. At club level he played with Clonakilty and University College Dublin, and he was a member of the Cork senior football team. He won a Sigerson Cup title with University College Dublin in 1973 and a Railway Cup medal with the Combined Universities team the same year. He played for Cork as a minor, won the Munster Junior Football Championship in 1972 and was then called up to the senior team, lining out at left wing-forward when Cork beat Galway in the 1973 All-Ireland final. He also won consecutive Munster Senior Football Championship titles, four consecutive Railway Cup medals with Munster and an All-Star award in 1976. A car accident in 1979 ended his inter-county career. He later worked as a secondary school teacher in Clonakilty and ran the family newsagent.