Teddy McCarthy

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Teddy McCarthy

Personal information
Sport	Dual player
Place of birth	Cork, Ireland
Club information
Club	Sarsfield's
Football Position	-
Hurling Position	-
Club(s)*
Club	Years	Apps (scores)
Inter County
County	Cork
Football Position	-
Hurling Position	-
Inter County(ies)**
County	Years	Apps (scores)
Cork (F) Cork (H)	?-?  ?-?
Inter County Titles
	Football	Hurling
Munster titles	-	-
* club appearances and scores correct as of . **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of .

Teddy McCarthy (born 1964) is a former Irish sportsperson who played Gaelic football and hurling with Cork in the 1980s and 1990s.

Teddy McCarthy is regarded as one of the greatest dual players of all-time. He has gone down in Gaelic Games history as one of two players ever to win All-Ireland Senior Football and a All-Ireland Senior Hurling medals in the same year (along with Denis Walsh - Also on the Cork hurling and football teams that year). Throughout his sporting career McCarthy was adept at both games, however, his early successes were on the football field. He was a member of the Cork minor football team that reached the 1983 All-Ireland Minor Final which Derry won by a two point margin. Two years later in Centenary Year McCarthy won an All-Ireland Under-21 and All-Ireland Junior medals with Cork's footballers, as well as a County Championship title with Imokilly. 1985 saw McCarthy win his second All-Ireland Under-21 medal and gain his place on the Cork senior football team.

By this stage his hurling skills had been noticed by the Cork selectors and he was named as a substitute on the Cork hurling team for the 1986 Munster Final which the Leesiders won. Following that victory McCarthy went on holidays and was surprised on his return to find out that he had been named on the Cork team to play Galway in the All-Ireland Hurling Final. By the end of the year he had claimed his first All-Ireland senior hurling medal, a third All-Ireland under-21 football medal, as well as a second County Championship with Imokilly. In 1987 McCarthy was a firm feature of both the senior hurling and senior football teams. He claimed his first Munster title in football Disappointment followed with defeats in the All-Ireland series of 1987 and 1988. By 1989 McCarthy had claimed another Munster title with Cork footballers, as well as a National Football League and his first All-Ireland Senior Football medal. In winning the championship McCarthy became the fifteenth dual All-Ireland medal winner.

His skills at football were well noted in 1989 when he received an All Star Award, as well as being named Texaco Footballer of the Year. More glory was to follow for McCarthy in 1990. In spite of missing the football and hurling Munster finals due to an ankle injury he recovered in time for the All-Ireland finals. He made history in the space of two weeks by becoming the first person to win Gaelic games' top two medals in the same year. McCarthy was to play in two further All-Ireland finals against Kilkenny in 1992 and against Derry in 1993, however, McCarthy ended up on the losing side on both occasions. His final major success on the inter-county field was National Hurling League medal in 1993 when he joined an elite group of players who hold league medal in both hurling and football. In 1995 McCarthy won his last Munster football medal in 1995, coming on as a substitute against Kerry.

In all McCarthy's inter-county career with Cork lasted for 14 years from 1983 until 1996. For eleven of these years he played hurling and football at senior level for his county.

Preceded by Robbie O'Malley (Meath)

Texaco Footballer of the Year 1989

Succeeded by Shea Fahy (Cork)

	Cork - All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1986 (26th title)
1 G. Cunningham | 2 D. Mulcahy | 3 R. Browne | 4 J. Crowley | 5 P. Hartnett | 6 T. Cashman (Capt.) | 7 D. Walsh | 8 J. Fenton | 9 J. Cashman | 10 T. McCarthy | 11 T. Mulcahy | 12 T. O'Sullivan | 13 G. Fitzgerald | 14 J. Barry-Murphy | 15 Kevin Hennessy | Subs: K. Kingston Manager: J. Clifford

	Cork - All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1990 (27th title)
1 G. Cunningham | 2 J. Considine | 3 D. Walsh | 4 S. O'Gorman | 5 S. McCarthy | 6 J. Cashman | 7 K. McGuckian | 8 B. O'Sullivan | 9 T. McCarthy | 10 G. FitzGerald | 11 M. Foley | 12 T. O'Sullivan | 13 T. Mulcahy (Capt.) | 14 K. Hennessy | 15 J. Fitzgibbon | Subs: D. Quirke | C. Casey | Manager: M. O'Brien

	Cork - All-Ireland Football Champions 1989
1 J. Kerins | 2 N. Cahalane | 3 S. O'Brien | 4 J. Kerrigan | 5 M. Slocum | 6 C. Counihan | 7 T. Davis | 8 T. McCarthy | 9 S. Fahy | 10 D. Barry | 11 L. Tompkins | 12 B. Coffey | 13 P. McGrath | 14 D. Allen (Capt.) | 15 J. Cleary | Subs: D. Culloty | J. O'Driscoll | M. McCarthy | Manager: B. Morgan

	Cork - All-Ireland Football Champions 1990
1 J. Kerins | 2 T. Nation | 3 S. O'Brien | 4 N. Cahalane | 5 M. Slocum | 6 C. Counihan | 7 B. Coffey | 8 D. Culloty | 9 S. Fahy | 10 D. Barry | 11 L. Tompkins (Capt.) | 12 T. McCarthy | 13 P. McGrath | 14 C. O'Neill | 15 M. McCarthy | Subs: P. Hayes | J. O'Driscoll | J. Cleary | Manager: B. Morgan