| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Donal Hurley | |
| Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
| Birth Date: | 1936 |
| Death Place: | Cork, Ireland |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 9 |
| Occupation: | National school teacher |
| County: | Cork |
| Province: | Munster |
| Clubs: | Erin's Hope St Finbarr's |
| Clcountyf: | 3 |
| Clcountyh: | 1 |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icposition: | Left wing-back |
| Icyears: | 1959–1960 |
| Icapps(Points): | 3 (0-00) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nfl: | 0 |
Donal Hurley (1936 – 21 January 2022) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler and coach. At club level played with club sides Lees, Erin's Hope and St Finbarr's, and at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team.
Hurley first played Gaelic football for Cork as full-forward on the minor team during the unsuccessful 1954 Munster MFC campaign.[1] A year later, he was part of the St Finbarr's team that won the Cork SHC title after beating Glen Rovers in the final.[2] Hurley added a Cork SFC medal to his collection in 1956, while he also had the distinction of winning a Dublin SFC title with Erin's Hope the same year, as his teacher-training studies in the capital made him eligible to play with the club.[3]
After returning to Cork, Hurley resumed his club career with St Finbarr's in 1957. He won a second Cork SFC title that year, before claiming a third winners' medal as team captain in 1959.[4] By that stage, Hurley had joined the Cork senior football team. He served as team captain in 1960.[5]
In retirement from playing, Hurley became involved in team management and coaching. He was a selector when St Finbarr's beat St Michael's to win the Cork SFC in 1976.[6] He was also a selector when St Finbarr's became All-Ireland Club SFC champions in 1987.[7]
Hurley spent his entire working life as a teacher at the North Monastery Primary School in Cork.[8] He died on 21 January 2022, at the age of 85.[9] Hurley was posthumously honoured when the cup for the newly created Cork PJFC was named in his honour.[10]
1956
1986