Donal Hunt

Donal Hunt, born in February 1949 on Bere Island, is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played for club side Bantry Blues, divisional side Carbery and at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team. He came to prominence during his schooldays at Bantry Vocational School and won three divisional championship titles, the first in 1968, as well as county titles at junior and intermediate level. With Carbery he won the Cork Senior Football Championship in 1968 and 1971. By the time he joined the Cork seniors in the autumn of 1967 he already held All-Ireland minor and under-21 medals, and he went on to win three Munster Championship medals in the following decade. Injury kept him out of the starting team for the 1973 All-Ireland final against Galway, but he collected a winners' medal as a substitute, and in 1972 he captained Munster to the Railway Cup.