Mick Kennefick
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| Mick Kennefick | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Sport | Hurling | |
| Full name | Michael Kennefick | |
| Place of birth | Cork , Ireland | |
| Club information | ||
| Club | St. Finbarr's | |
| Position | Half-forward | |
| Inter-County | ||
| County | Cork | |
| Position | Left wing-forward | |
| Inter-County(ies)** | ||
| County | Years | Apps (scores) |
| Cork | 1942-1944 | 8 |
| Senior Inter-County Titles | ||
| Munster Titles | 2 | |
| All-Ireland | 2 | |
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* club appearances and scores |
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Michael 'Mick' Kennefick (1924-1982) was a famous Irish sportsperson who played hurling with St. Finbarr's and Cork in the 1940s.
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[edit] Early life
Mick Kennefick was born on the south side of Cork in 1925. He was educated locally and from an early age he showed a great interest in the game of hurling.
[edit] Playing career
[edit] Club
Kennefick played his club hurling with the famous St. Finbarr's club in Cork. He was only out of minor ranks when he won back-to-back senior county championship titles in 1942 and 1943.
[edit] Inter-county
Kennefick’s skill as a hurler was soon spotted and he quickly joined the Cork minor hurling team. In 1941 he won a Munster minor medal, before later claiming an All-Ireland title. In 1942 the minor championship was cancelled due to ‘the Emergency’, however, Kennefick joined the senior panel at the tender age of seventeen. In his first game in the Munster Championship he was given the almost impossible task of marking Limerick’s Mick Mackey. He succeeded in his task and later won his first Munster title. His first All-Ireland title quickly followed, following an emphatic victory over Dublin in the final.
In 1943 Kennefick, at the age of eighteen, was appointed captain of the Cork senior hurling team. He guided his native-county to a second consecutive Munster title, before landing a third consecutive All-Ireland title following a 5-16 to 0-4 victory over Antrim. At this time Kennefick had come to be regarded as something of a teenage prodigy, however, his story is one of the great ‘might-have-beens’. In the first-round of the 1944 Munster Championship Kennefick’s wrist was broken by Tipperary player James Ryan. Kennefick never played for Cork again.
[edit] Retirement
In retirement from the game Kennefick maintained a keen interest in the game. He saw his son-in-law, Jimmy Barry-Murphy, win five All-Ireland titles with Cork in the 1970s and 1980s. Kennefick died in 1982.
| Preceded by Jack Lynch |
Cork Senior Hurling Captain 1943 |
Succeeded by Seán Condon |
| Preceded by Jack Lynch Cork) |
All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain 1943 |
Succeeded by Seán Condon Cork) |
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