Teddy O'Brien

James Edward M. O'Brien, known as Teddy O'Brien, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer, born in 1949 and raised in Blackpool on the northside of Cork, who died on 8 August 2000 at the age of 50. At club level he played hurling for Glen Rovers and football for St. Nicholas', and he was a member of the Cork senior teams as a dual player. With Glen Rovers he won three Cork senior hurling titles and the 1977 All-Ireland club final. For Cork he won minor and Under-21 All-Ireland titles in both codes, a Munster senior football title in 1971 and 1973 and the 1973 All-Ireland senior football title as a squad member. He then committed to hurling and was part of the Cork side that won the 1977 All-Ireland hurling final, which made him the 15th player to hold All-Ireland senior medals in both codes. He worked for Lombard and Ulster Bank.