Pat McCarthy (Gaelic footballer)

Pat McCarthy, born in 1950, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder for the Kerry and Kildare senior teams. A nephew of the 1940s player Phil McCarthy, he was a naturally strong player with excellent hands and a good jump, and he came through the Kerry under-21 team in the early 1970s before getting a proper chance on the senior squad under Mick O'Dwyer, where he became the midfield partner of Paudie Lynch. He made his first championship appearance in 1975 and won one All-Ireland medal and three Munster winner's medals in four championship seasons. His most praiseworthy display came in the 1976 Munster final against Cork, a game regarded by many sportswriters as the best game of Gaelic football ever.