| Ger Collins | |
| Irish: | Gearóid Ó Coileáin |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Birth Date: | 13 July 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Ballinhassig, County Cork, Ireland |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 10 |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Cork |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Ballinhassig |
| Clyears: | 2018-present |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | Cork Institute of Technology |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Colyears: | 2018-present |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icyears: | 2018-2023 |
| Icposition: | Goalkeeper |
| Icapps(Points): | 0 (0-00) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 21:34, 3 July 2021 |
Ger Collins (born 13 July 1999) is an Irish hurler who plays as a goalkeeper for Cork Premier Championship club Ballinhassig and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team.
Collins joined the Ballinhassig club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels as a hurler and Gaelic footballer.
On 16 September 2018, Collins made his first appearance for Ballinhassig's top adult team when he lined out in goal for their 1-22 to 0-14 defeat by Valley Rovers in the Premier Intermediate Championship.
Collins first lined out for Cork as a member of the minor team during the 2016 Munster Championship. He made his first appearance in goal on 6 April in a 0-17 to 1-10 defeat of Waterford.[1]
Collins was eligible for the minor grade again the following year. On 9 July, he was in goal when Cork defeated Clare by 4-21 to 0-16 to win the Munster Championship for the first time since 2008.[2] On 3 September, Collins was again in goal when Cork suffered a 2-17 to 2-15 defeat by Galway in the All-Ireland final.[3]
Collins subsequently joined the Cork under-21 team for the 2018 Munster Championship and took over as goalkeeper from his brother Patrick.[4] On 4 July, he won a Munster Championship medal following Cork's 2-23 to 1-13 defeat of Tipperary in the final.[5] On 26 August, Collins was in goal for Cork's 3-13 to 1-16 All-Ireland final defeat by Tipperary.[6] He was later named as goalkeeper on the Team of the Year.[7]
On 3 July 2019, Collins made his first appearance for Cork's inaugural under-20 team in the Munster Championship. He lined out in goal in the 1-20 to 0-16 defeat of Limerick.[8] On 23 July 2019, Collins was again in goal when Cork suffered a 3-15 to 2-17 defeat by Tipperary in the Munster final.[9] He was again selected in goal when Cork faced Tipperary for a second time in the All-Ireland final on 24 August 2019, however, he ended the game on the losing side after a 5-17 to 1-18 defeat.[10]
Collins was a late addition to the Cork senior team during the 2018 All-Ireland Championship.[11] On 29 July, he was an unused substitute when Cork suffered a 3-32 to 2-21 extra-time defeat by Limerick in the All-Ireland semi-final.[12]
| Team | Year | Cork PIHC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | |||
| Ballinhassig | 2018 | 1 | 0-00 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 0-00 | ||
| Career total | 2 | 0-00 | ||
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Cork | 2018 | Division 1A | — | — | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | |||
| 2019 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 2021 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | |||
| Total | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | |||