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Charles "Charlie" McCarthy (born 1946) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a left corner-forward for the Cork senior team.
Born in Tower Street, Cork, McCarthy first excelled at hurling during his schooling at Sullivan's Quay CBS. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Cork minor teams as a dual player, before later joining the under-21 hurling side. He made his senior debut during the 1965 championship. McCarthy immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won five All-Ireland medals, nine Munster medals and four National Hurling League medals. The All-Ireland-winning captain of 1978, he was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, McCarthy won one Railway Cup medal. At club level he is a two-time All-Ireland medallist with St. Finbarr's. In addition to this he has also won four Munster medals and five championship medals, after beginning his career with Redmonds.
McCarthy's career tally of 27 goals and 154 points ranks him as Cork's fourth highest championship scorer of all-time..
Throughout his career McCarthy made 45 championship appearances. His retirement came following the conclusion of the 1980 championship.
In retirement from playing McCarthy became involved in team management and coaching. After serving as coach of the Cork minor and senior teams he guided club side St. Finbarr's to championship success.
McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers of his era. During his playing days he won three All-Star awards. He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including at right corner-forward on the Club Hurling Silver Jubilee Team and the Supreme All-Stars team. McCarthy was also chosen as one of the 125 greatest hurlers of all-time in a 2009 poll.
Charlie McCarthy (born in Gneeveguilla, County Kerry, Ireland) played Gaelic football with his local club Gneeveguilla. At the age of 19 he was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team during the 1996 Championship campaign. That year Kerry won their first Munster Championship since 1991. McCarthy was part of the Kerry team that won the 1995 and 1996 All Ireland Under 21 titles. He also won an All Ireland Minor Medal with Kerry in 1994, the last time Kerry won the All Ireland minor competition. McCarthy played centre back and won the “man of the match award” in that game. He won three consecutive Kerry Senior County Championship medals with East Kerry in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
Usage examples of "charlie mccarthy".
Melton is to Steve Clark what Edgar Bergen was to Charlie McCarthy.
I had tied the ground wire to the radiator, and I would lie there with my coloring books and my Crayolas (when there were only sixteen colors in the big box), and listen to the NBC red network: Jack Benny on the Jell-O Program, Amos n Andy, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the Chase and Sanborn Program, One Mans Family, First Nighter.
He was like a vituperative marionette, a vicious Charlie McCarthy.
He named me after Charlie Mccarthy, a dummy that a ventriloquist named Edgar Bergen had.
You made that picture of Jesus talk your own self, like Edgar Bergen used to make Charlie McCarthy talk on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Why've I spent the last few days with your hand up my arse working my jaw-hinges like Charlie McCarthy?
He didn't smile, let alone laugh, at the jokes on the Charlie McCarthy or Fred Allen or Jack Benny shows, which convulsed the other radio listeners in the ward.
She'd been listening to Charlie McCarthy and when Nelson Eddy came on she'd switched away.