Paul O'Connor (hurler), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish hurler
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Place of Birth: Cork, Munster, Ireland
About Paul O'Connor (hurler)
- Paul O'Connor (29 March 1963 – 20 September 2012) was an Irish hurler who played as a midfielder for the Cork senior team.O'Connor joined the panel during the 1986 championship and became a regular player over the following three seasons.
- During that time he failed to claim any honours.
- He hurled for Cork between 1987 and 1990 but was deprived of an All-Ireland medal after suffering a serious knee injury just months before Cork's famous "double" of the Liam McCarthy and Sam Maguire Cups.
- But for this serious injury, O'Connor would have been one of the outstanding hurlers of the 1990s. At club level O'Connor was a two-time county club championship medalist with Na Piarsaigh. With University College Cork O'Connor won five consecutive Fitzgibbon Cup winners' medals.
- He is regarded as one the competition's greatest-ever players.
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