Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Tom O'Hare | |
Irish: | Tomás Ó hEithir |
Fullname: | Thomas O'Hare |
County: | Down |
Province: | Ulster |
Club: | Mayobridge |
Clyears: | 1950s-1980s |
Clcounty: | 0 |
Counties: | Down |
Icposition: | Left corner-back |
Icyears: | 1960s-1970s |
Icprovince: | 5 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Nfl: | 1 |
Birth Place: | Mayobridge, County Down |
Tom O'Hare (born 1943 in Mayobridge, County Down) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local clubs Mayobridge and Clonduff and was a member of the Down senior inter-county team from the 1960s until the 1970s. O'Hare won an All-Ireland winners' medal with Down in 1968, scoring two points from 45s. O'Hare was recognised as one of the best defenders ever to play the game. He is currently a trustee and president of his club Mayobridge. [1] O'Hare was named on Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's team of his life, which was published in the Sunday Independent.