Timmy McCarthy

Timmy McCarthy, born on 7 September 1977, is an Irish retired hurler who played for the East Cork club Castlelyons and for the Cork senior hurling team for 12 seasons, usually lining out as a right wing-forward. He broke onto Castlelyons' top adult team at sixteen in 1994, won the Cork Junior Championship in 1997 with promotion and a Cork Intermediate Championship in 1998, and made 58 championship appearances in four grades for the club. His early form also earned a place with the Imokilly divisional team, with whom he won back-to-back Cork Senior Championship titles in 1997 and 1998. At inter-county level he won the All-Ireland minor title in 1995, back-to-back under-21 titles in 1997 and 1998 and an intermediate title in 1997, before joining the Cork senior team in 1998 and becoming an ever-present wing-forward with 91 combined National League and Championship appearances.