Paddy O'Halloran

Paddy O'Halloran was an Irish sportsman who played both hurling and Gaelic football for his local club, St Mary's, and was a dual player for the Cork senior inter-county teams in the 1910s and 1920s. He first came to prominence on the Cork senior hurling team in 1915, when he won his first Munster medal after a victory over Clare in the provincial final, though Cork lost that year's All-Ireland final to Laois. Cork won the 1919 Munster final against Limerick, and in the All-Ireland final they beat Dublin by 6-4 to 2-4, which gave O'Halloran his All-Ireland winners' medal. It was the first occasion on which Cork wore their distinctive red jerseys, because the old saffron and blue jerseys had been seized by the British before the game. He won a fourth and final Munster title in 1920, but Cork lost that year's All-Ireland final to Dublin, and that defeat ended his inter-county career.