Biography
John Horgan was born in Barrack Street in Cork in 1950. He was educated locally at Sullivan’s Quay CBS and it was here that his sporting talents were first developed. He later played in the Blackrock Street Leagues in the early 1960s. His family later moved to Rochestown and he has lived there for most of his life. Horgan later worked as a coal merchant for many years before opening his own pub in Ringaskiddy in the early 1990s. He currently runs his own school of motoring in Rochestown.
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