Phil McCarthy

Phil McCarthy was a Kerry senior Gaelic football player in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He came from Baltygarron in The Spa near Tralee and played his club football with Churchill. He played at full-forward for Kerry in league and championship games between 1944 and 1950, a decade in which Kerry won three All-Ireland football finals and lost two, including the famous final against Cavan held in New York in 1947. When his playing days ended he was heavily involved for many years in the development of underage teams with Churchill, both in training and in taxiing underage players to games all over North Kerry. His nephew Pat McCarthy was a senior Kerry footballer in the 1970s, and his son Philip represented Kerry at junior level in the 1980s.