John Buckley (Glen Rovers hurler)

John Buckley, born on 2 June 1958, is an Irish former hurler who played at club level with Glen Rovers and for the Cork senior hurling team. He first played hurling to a high standard as a student at the North Monastery, and at Glen Rovers he came through the juvenile and underage grades, also playing Gaelic football with the sister club St Nicholas'. He won a Cork minor hurling and football double in 1976, and later concentrated on hurling alone. He won a Cork Senior Hurling Championship medal in 1989. For Cork he won five consecutive Munster Senior Hurling Championship medals from 1982 to 1986 and was an unused substitute when Cork beat Offaly in the 1984 All-Ireland final.