| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Bertie Cunningham | |
| Irish: | Beircheart Mac Cuinneagáin |
| Birth Place: | Ballivor, County Meath, Ireland |
| Birth Date: | 1939[1] |
| Death Place: | Ballivor, County Meath, Ireland |
| Feet: | 6 |
| Inches: | 0 |
| County: | Meath |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Clubs: | Ballivor Killyon |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Counties: | Meath |
| Icposition: | Centre-back |
| Icyears: | 1958–1972 |
| Icprovince: | 4 |
| Icallireland: | 1 |
| Nfl: | 0 |
Bernard P. Cunningham (1939 – 19 January 2023) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level played with Ballivor and at inter-county level with the Meath senior football team. Cunningham usually lined out as a centre-back.
Cunningham first played Gaelic football and hurling at Killyon NS before later attending both Trim CBS and Trim Vocational School.[2] He won an All-Ireland Vocational Schools' medal with a Meath selection in 1956. At club level, Cunningham won county championship medals with the Ballivor juveniles in 1952 and 1954, before winning a Meath IFC title in 1971.
Cunningham first appeared on the inter-county scene with the Meath minor team that won the All-Ireland MFC title in 1957.[3] He immediately progressed to the junior team before making his senior team debut in an O'Byrne Cup game in 1958. Cunningham won the first of four Leinster SFC medals in 1964.[4] After losing the 1966 All-Ireland final to Galway, he was again at centre-back when Meath defeated Cork in the 1967 final.[5] Cunningham ended the All-Ireland-winning season by being named Texaco Footballer of the Year.
In retirement from playing, Cunningham was involved in coaching at all levels with Ballivor. He also spent a period as a selector with the Meath senior team.
Cunningham died on 19 January 2023, at the age of 83.[6] [7]
1964, 1966, 1967, 1970
1957