John Cleary (Gaelic footballer)

John Cleary, born in Castlehaven, County Cork, on 20 June 1963, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a left corner-forward at senior level for the Cork county team. He arrived on the inter-county scene at sixteen with the Cork minor team and then joined the under-21 side, made his senior debut during the 1983 championship and immediately became a regular in the starting fifteen. He won two All-Ireland medals, three Munster medals and one National Football League medal, and was an All-Ireland runner-up on three occasions. He was a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions but never won a Railway Cup medal. At club level he is a three-time Munster medallist with Castlehaven, and his sister Nollaig Cleary and brother-in-law Niall Cahalane are also All-Ireland medallists with Cork.