Mick Burke (Gaelic footballer)

Mick Burke, born in 1941 in Mitchelstown, County Cork, is an Irish former sportsperson who played Gaelic football with his local club Mitchelstown and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1961 until 1969. Between 1963 and 1967 the Cú Chulainn awards, which predated the GAA Football All Stars, picked a team of the year, and in 1967 he was picked at midfield on that team. His honours with Mitchelstown include a North Cork minor football medal in 1959, North Cork junior football medals in 1958, 1960 and 1961, the Cork County Junior Football medal in 1961, the Cork County Senior Football medal in 1961 and the Cork County Intermediate Football medal in 1965. With Cork he won a Munster minor football medal in 1959, Munster senior football medals in 1966 and 1967 and an All-Ireland runners-up medal in 1967.