| John Barr | |
| Birth Place: | Inverness, Scottish Highlands |
| Known For: | Shinty |
| Occupation: | Shinty Player |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
John Barr (born 1982) is a Scottish international shinty player from Abriachan, Scotland. He has mainly played as a defender, for Glenurquhart Shinty Club where he has also been assistant manager.[1]
Barr attended Charleston Academy in Inverness. He attended Robert Gordon University and graduated in 2009.[2]
Barr has represented Scotland at all levels of shinty, most recently in 2009.[3] [4]
He is known for a physically dominant style of play.[5] The crowd at the 2009 Scotland-Ireland international enjoyed the good humoured chant "John Barr ate my car".[3]
In 2006, he was part of the Scottish University Shinty Men's squad and having performed so well as a hurler, he received a Universities Hurling All Star honour in recognition of this.[6]
His first senior cap was in 2005 and in October 2015 he gained his fourteenth cap as captain of Scotland against Ireland in the first leg of the cross-code Shinty-Hurling at Bight Park in Inverness.[7] Scotland won the tie.[8]
Barr has acted as a Trustee on the Board of RGU union since 2014.[2]