| Jack O'Connor | |
| Irish: | Seán Ó Conchúir |
| Occupation: | Bank official |
| Birth Date: | 1998 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Glanmire, County Cork, Ireland |
| Feet: | 6 |
| Inches: | 0 |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Cork |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Sarsfields |
| Clyears: | 2016-present |
| Clapps(Points): | 31 (10-64) |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | University College Cork |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Colyears: | 2018-2023 |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icyears: | 2018-present |
| Icposition: | Right corner-forward |
| Icapps(Points): | 17 (2-14) |
| Icprovince: | 1 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Clupdate: | 20:03, 3 May 2024 |
| Icupdate: | 20:42, 3 May 2024 |
Jack O'Connor (born 1 October 1998) is an Irish hurler who plays for Cork Senior Championship club Sarsfields and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a corner-forward.
O'Connor joined the Sarsfields club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels, winning a premier under-21 championship medal in 2017 following an eight-point defeat of Killeagh-St Ita's. By this stage, he had already made his senior hurling championship debut, coming on as a substitute in a 0–14 to 0–11 defeat of Carrigtwohill on 28 May 2016.[1]
O'Connor first played for Cork at minor level in 2016, however, his sole season in the grade ended with a defeat by Tipperary in the Munster semi-final.[2] On 13 July 2017, he made his first appearance for the Cork under-21 hurling team.[3] On 4 July 2018, O'Connor won a Munster medal after scoring 1-02 from play in Cork's 2–23 to 1–13 defeat of Tipperary in the final.[4] On 26 August 2018, he scored a point from play in Cork's 3–13 to 1-16 All-Ireland final defeat by Tipperary in what was his last game in the grade.[5]
O'Connor made his senior debut for Cork on 27 January 2018, replacing Alan Cadogan for the final nine minutes of a National League game against Kilkenny at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.[6] On 1 July 2018, he won his first Munster medal as an unused substitute following a 2–24 to 3–19 defeat of Clare in the final.[7]
| Team | Year | Cork PSHC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | |||
| Sarsfields | 2016 | 2 | 0-01 | |
| 2017 | 7 | 3-15 | ||
| 2018 | 2 | 1-03 | ||
| 2019 | 3 | 0-10 | ||
| 2020 | 4 | 3-08 | ||
| 2021 | 4 | 1-08 | ||
| 2022 | 3 | 1-09 | ||
| 2023 | 6 | 1-11 | ||
| Career total | 31 | 10-64 | ||
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Cork | 2018 | Division 1A | 4 | 0-01 | 1 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-01 | 6 | 0-02 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 1-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 4 | 1-00 | |||
| 2020 | 1 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-01 | 4 | 0-01 | |||
| 2021 | 4 | 4-03 | 1 | 0-03 | 4 | 2-07 | 9 | 6-13 | |||
| 2022 | 7 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-02 | 2 | 0-00 | 12 | 0-03 | |||
| 2023 | 3 | 0-03 | 0 | 0-00 | — | 3 | 0-03 | ||||
| 2024 | 3 | 1-04 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 4 | 1-04 | |||
| Total | 25 | 6-12 | 8 | 0-05 | 9 | 2-09 | 42 | 8-26 | |||