Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Tommy Burke | |
Irish: | Tomás de Búrca |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Millstreet |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Right corner-forward |
Icyears: | 1965 |
Icupdate: | 01:49, 15 July 2014 |
Birth Date: | 1943 |
Birth Place: | Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland |
Tommy Burke (born 1943) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played as a right corner-forward for the Cork senior football team.[1]
Born in Millstreet, County Cork, Burke first played competitive football in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Cork minor team, before later joining the under-21 side.[2] He joined the senior panel during the 1965 championship and enjoyed a brief one-year inter-county career.
At club level Burke is a one-time junior championship medallist with Millstreet.