Jim O'Regan

Jim O'Regan, who lived from 14 December 1901 to October 1982, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer from near Kinsale, County Cork, who played as a centre-back for the Cork and Dublin senior teams and the Offaly junior team. He first played Gaelic games while studying at De La Salle College in Waterford, joined the Offaly junior team at twenty-three, made his senior debut for Dublin in the 1925 championship and became a dual player with Cork's senior teams the following year. A regular on the inter-county scene, he won four All-Ireland medals, four Munster medals and two National Hurling League medals as well as a Munster football medal, and won several Railway Cup medals as a dual player with Munster. At club level he played for Kinsale, Garda and Courcey Rovers, made a combined 47 championship appearances for Cork and retired after the 1935 championship.