John Lyons (hurler)

John Lyons, who lived from 30 September 1924 to 11 June 2005, was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Cork senior team spanned fourteen years from 1946 to 1960. Born near Blackpool in Cork, he first played competitive hurling at the North Monastery, where he was a key member of the college team that completed the final two stages of winning four successive Harty Cup titles. Straight after leaving school he joined the Glen Rovers senior team and in a club career spanning three decades won ten county senior championship medals, captaining the team twice, before retiring at thirty-eight after the club failed to win a fourth successive championship in 1961. He also won a county senior championship medal at football with St. Nicholas'. Having never played minor or junior hurling for Cork, he made his senior debut at twenty-three in 1946 and won an All-Ireland medal that year as a non-playing substitute, was dropped, and was recalled in 1950 to hold the full-back position for a decade.