Mick Malone (hurler)

Mick Malone, formally Michael Malone, is an Irish retired hurler, born in 1950, who played as a right wing-forward for the Cork senior team. He joined the team during the 1971 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1978 championship, and during that time he won two All-Ireland medals, in 1976 and 1977, four Munster medals, two National League medals and two All-Star awards, and finished as an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. At club level he played with Éire Óg, winning the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1979 and the Cork Junior Hurling Championship in 1977. He is identified here as the Cork hurler to tell him apart from other people of the same name.