Daire Connery | |
Irish: | Daire Ó Conaire |
Occupation: | Student |
Birth Date: | 2000 |
Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Feet: | 6 |
Inches: | 0 |
Sport: | Hurling |
Code: | Hurling |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Na Piarsaigh |
Clyears: | 2018-present |
Clcounty: | 0 |
Colleges: | University College Cork |
Fitz: | 0 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icyears: | 2020- |
Icposition: | Left wing-forward |
Icapps(Points): | 1 (0-00) |
Icprovince: | 0 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nhl: | 0 |
Allstars: | 0 |
Icupdate: | 21:52, 31 July 2021 |
Daire Connery (born 2000) is an Irish hurler who plays for Premier Senior Championship club Na Piarsaigh and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a left wing-forward.
Son of Christy Connery and Susan Connery (Formerly Aher), a stalwart of the Na Piarsaigh club on the northside of Cork city, Connery first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the same club.[1] He was a member of the half-back line when the club's minor team defeated Killeagh-St. Ita's by 5-09 to 0-10 to win the Cork Premier 1 MHC title in 2016.
On 29 April 2018, Connery made his debut with the Na Piarsaigh senior team in a 2-15 to 0-15 defeat by Bandon in the 2018 Cork County Championship.
Connery first lined out for Cork as a member of the under-17 team during the 2017 Munster Championship. He made his first appearance at right corner-back on 11 April in a 0-16 to 0-06 defeat of Limerick.[2] On 25 April, Connery scored four points and claimed the Munster Championship title after a 3-13 to 1-12 defeat of Waterford in the final. He was again included on the starting fifteen, this time at midfield, for Cork's 1-19 to 1-17 All-Ireland final defeat of Dublin on 6 August.[3]
As well as being a member of the Cork under-17 team in 2017, Connery was also in his second year as a member of the Cork minor team. On 9 July, he was at midfield when Cork defeated Clare by 4-21 to 0-16 to win the Munster Championship for the first time since 2008.[4] On 3 September, Connery was again at midfield when Cork suffered a 2-17 to 2-15 All-Ireland final defeat by Galway.[5]
Connery was still just 18-years-old when he was drafted onto the Cork under-21 team. He won a Munster Championship medal on 4 July 2018, after coming on as a substitute in Cork's 2-23 to 1-13 defeat of Tipperary in the final.[6] On 26 August 2018, Connery was an unused substitute in Cork's 3-13 to 1-16 All-Ireland final defeat by Tipperary.[7]
On 3 July 2019, Connery made his first appearance for Cork's inaugural under-20 team in the Munster Championship. He scored three points, including a sideline cut, in the 1-20 to 0-16 defeat of Limerick.[8] On 23 July 2019, Connery was again at midfield when Cork suffered a 3-15 to 2-17 defeat by Tipperary in the Munster final.[9] He was selected at left wing-forward when Cork faced Tipperary for a second time that year in the All-Ireland final on 24 August 2019. Connery ended the game on the losing side after a 5-17 to 1-18 defeat.[10]
Connery was brought onto the Cork senior panel during the 2020 National League. He made the match-day panel for the first time for Cork's group stage game against Limerick on 23 February 2020.[11] Connery was later included on Cork's Munster Championship panel and made his debut as a late replacement at left wing-forward for Aidan Walsh in a 1-28 to 1-24 defeat by Waterford.[12]
Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
Cork | 2020 | Division 1A | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | |
2021 | 3 | 0-04 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-04 | |||
Career total | 3 | 0-04 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 4 | 0-04 |