Teddy was the only man to win All-Ireland senior hurling and football championship medals in the same year.
CORK GAA GREAT Teddy McCarthy has been laid to rest today following mass at St Joseph’s church in Glanmire, Co Cork.
Teddy was midfield for the hurling success against Galway as he scored 0-3 and played wing-forward in the football victory over Meath. One priest at the funeral mass referred to the mass as “the biggest funeral Cork has seen in decades, which shows the esteem that Teddy was held in”.Billy Morgan, Con Murphy, Larry Tompkins, Tomas Mulcahy, Niall Cahalane and Jimmy Barry Murphy shoulder Teddy McCarthy’s coffin into the church pic.twitter.com/aOjISHm76xGiving his eulogy this morning, Teddy’s son Cian McCarthy said that his father had invested a lot of his time teaching his grandchildren how to play hurling and football.
Paying tribute to Teddy on Tuesday, Tánaiste Micheál Martin said he “always enjoyed chatting” to the sportsman.
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