John Allen (hurler)

John Allen, born in 1955, is an Irish former hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a forward in both codes for the Cork senior teams. A dual player at the highest level, he spent three seasons with the Cork senior hurling team, winning one All-Ireland winners' medal and one Munster winners' medal, and five seasons with the Cork senior football team, winning one Munster winners' medal and one National Football League winners' medal. At club level he is a dual All-Ireland medallist with St Finbarr's and collected several provincial and club championship medals in both codes. In retirement he turned to coaching and team management, with a successful few years as masseuse and selector with the Cork senior hurling team leading to a two-year tenure as team manager, and from 2011 until 2013 he was manager of the Limerick senior hurling team.