Paddy Barry (Sarsfield's)

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Paddy Barry (1928-2000) was an Irish sportsperson who played hurling with Sarsfield's and Cork in the 1950s.

Paddy Barry was born in the parish of Glanmire in East County Cork in 1928. He was educated locally and from an early age he showed great skill at the game of hurling. He soon joined his local Sarsfield's GAA club and was very successful as a club and inter-county hurler. Barry's first success at inter-county level was a National Hurling League medal in 1948. In 1951 Barry won the Cork County Championship with Sarsfield’s. He was personally honoured by being appointed captain of the Cork senior hurling team for the following year (1952). That year he won his first Munster Championship medal. He also had the honour of leading Cork to an All-Ireland title. It was the first of three such victories in-a-row for Barry and Cork. He won two more Munster and All-Ireland titles in 1953 and 1954, this time under the captaincy of the great Christy Ring. Barry also claimed a second National League medal in 1953.

In 1956 Barry won his fourth Munster Championship medal and competed in his fourth All-Ireland final. The All-Ireland final against Wexford has gone down as one of the greatest finals in the history of the game. Barry, unfortunately, ended up on the losing side that day. There was some consolation for Barry as he won a second Cork County SHC medal with Sarsfield’s at the end of the year. This allowed him to captain the Cork side once again for 1957, however, the team had little success. After 1956 Cork’s hurling fortunes took a downturn as Tipperary emerged as kingpins of the Munster Championship. Although he would play in several more Munster finals Barry never ended up on the winning side. He retired from inter-county hurling in 1961, however, he was recalled for the 1964 Munster final, which Cork lost. He is still regarded as one of the greatest forwards of his era and is particularly revered in east Cork where his legendary battles of fifty years ago with Tipperary's great corner back, John Doyle are still recalled with pride.

Paddy Barry died on 18 December 2000.

Preceded by Jimmy Finn (Tipperary)

All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain 1952

Succeeded by Christy Ring (Cork)

	Cork - All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1952 (17th title)
1 D. Creedon | 2 G. O'Riordan | 3 J. Lyons | 4 T. O'Shaughnessy | 5 M. Fuohy | 6 V. Twomey | 7 S. O'Brien | 8 J. Twomey | 9 G. Murphy | 10 W. Griffin | 11 W.J. Daly | 12 C. Ring | 13 P. Healy | 14 L. Dowling | 15 P. Barry (Capt.) |

	Cork - All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1953 (18th title)
1 D. Creedon | 2 G. O'Riordan | 3 J. Lyons | 4 T. O'Shaughnessy | 5 M. Fuohy | 6 D. Hayes | 7 V. Twomey | 8 J. Twomey | 9 G. Murphy | 10 W.J. Daly | 11 J. Hartnett | 12 C. Ring (Capt.) | 13 T. O'Sullivan | 14 L. Dowling | 15 P. Barry |

	Cork - All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1954 (19th title)
1 D. Creedon | 2 G. O'Riordan | 3 J. Lyons | 4 T. O'Shaughnessy | 5 M. Fuohy | 6 V. Twomey | 7 D. Hayes | 8 W. Moore | 9 G. Murphy | 10 W.J. Daly | 11 J. Hartnett | 12 C. Ring (Capt.) | 13 J. Clifford | 14 E. Goulding | 15 P. Barry |

	Munster Hurling Team of the Millennium (2000)
1 Tony Reddin | 2 John Doyle | 3 Brian Lohan | 4 Denis Murphy | 5 Jimmy Finn | 6 John Keane | 7 Jackie Power | 8 Jack Lynch | 9 Phil Grimes | 10 Jimmy Doyle | 11 Mick Mackey | 12 Christy Ring | 13 Jimmy Smyth | 14 Ray Cummins | 15 Paddy Barry |