John Browne (hurler)

John Browne, born in 1977, is an Irish hurling manager and former hurler who played for the Cork Senior Championship club Blackrock and for the Cork senior hurling team over a seven-year period, usually lining out as a left corner-back. His brothers Alan and Richard also played for Cork. He broke onto Blackrock's senior team straight out of the minor grade in 1995, was part of three Cork Senior Championship winning teams in 1998, 1999 and 2001, and won a Fitzgibbon Cup title with University College Cork. With Cork he won the All-Ireland under-21 title in 1997, joined the senior team in 1998, was ever-present in the last line of defence with 58 combined appearances until 2005, was part of three All-Ireland winning teams in 1999, 2004 and 2005 and won three Munster medals and a National Hurling League medal. He played one campaign with Munster and later managed the Blackrock senior team.