Jimmy Barrett (Gaelic footballer)

Jimmy Barrett, born in 1949 in Cork, is a former Irish Gaelic footballer who played his club football with Nemo Rangers and represented the Cork senior team from 1970 until 1978. With Nemo Rangers he won five Cork Senior Football Championship titles between 1972 and 1978, four Munster club titles and two All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship titles, in 1973 and 1979. He first came to prominence with the Cork minor team, winning an All-Ireland minor medal in 1967 in the same year that he won a minor hurling All-Ireland with Cork, and later added an All-Ireland under-21 medal. For the Cork seniors he won three Munster Senior Football Championship medals, in 1971, 1973 and 1974, and an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal in 1973 when Cork beat Galway in the final. He also played for Munster in the inter-provincial competition and won Railway Cup medals in 1972 and 1975.