Tommy Burke

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Tommy Burke
Personal information
Irish name Tomás de Búrca
Sport Gaelic football
Position Right corner-forward
Born 1943
Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland
Club(s)
YearsClub
Millstreet
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1965
Cork

Tommy Burke (born 1943) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played as a right corner-forward for the Cork senior football team. [1]

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Born in Millstreet, County Cork, Burke first played competitive football in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Cork minor team, before later joining the under-21 side. [2] He joined the senior panel during the 1965 championship and enjoyed a brief one-year inter-county career.

At club level Burke is a one-time junior championship medallist with Millstreet.

Honours

Team

Millstreet
Cork

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References

  1. "Cork Football Teams: 1960-1969" (PDF). Cork GAA website. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  2. "Minors looking for tenth All-Ireland". The Corkman. 23 September 2000. Retrieved 14 July 2014.