Biography
Justin McCarthy was born in Passage West, County Cork in 1945. From an early age he showed a huge interest in the game of hurling. McCarthy’s hurling genes came from his mother’s side of the family. Her brothers, Batt and Ger O’Mahony, had played with the Young Ireland’s club in Boston and won the North American championship in 1934. When Bord na nÓg was formed in Cork in the 1950s McCarthy took part in the under-14, under-15 and under-16 competitions under the tutelage of Fr. Roch, a Kilkenny native. In 1955 he wore the red jersey of Cork for the first time when it was arranged for the altar boys of Cork to take on a group of altar boys from Kilkenny. It was a proud moment for McCarthy as Cork won. Justin's namesake his son Justin McCarthy works for Irish radio station Today FM as the station's political correspondent.
On 12 January 2005 McCarthy was profiled on the TG4 television programme Laochra Gael.
Read more about this topic: Justin Mc Carthy (hurler)
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)