Ronan Curran

Ronan Curran is an Irish hurling manager and former hurler, born in 1981, who played club hurling for St Finbarr's and later managed Kanturk. He played for the Cork senior team for ten years from 2001, making 97 league and championship appearances, a record number as a centre-back, and he was described as the outstanding centre-back of the decade; his half-back line with Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and John Gardiner is regarded as one of the greatest of all time. He won All-Ireland titles with Cork in 2004 and 2005, three Munster medals, three All-Stars, and a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 2005, and he also played Gaelic football for his club, winning a Premier Intermediate Football Championship in 2008. He retired from inter-county hurling in 2011.