Matty Fouhy

Matty Fouhy, born Matthew Fouhy and living from 14 April 1923 to 27 April 1977, was an Irish hurler from Midleton, County Cork, who played as a right wing-back for the Cork senior team. He first played hurling at Midleton CBS, joined the Cork minor team at seventeen and later the junior side, and joined the senior panel during the 1944 championship. A regular in the starting fifteen, he won three All-Ireland medals, two Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal, with one All-Ireland runner-up finish, and won four Railway Cup medals with Munster. At club level he enjoyed a twenty-year career with Carrigtwohill. He made 24 championship appearances and retired from inter-county hurling after the 1957 championship.