Irish name Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin Position Full Forward Years Club Height 1.81 m | Sport Hurling Occupation Electrician 2004- Cloyne | |
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Born 28 November 1988 (age 28)
Cork, Ireland ( 1988-11-28 ) | ||
Paudie o sullivan scores a point for cork v clare
Paudie O'Sullivan (born 28 November 1988) is an Irish hurler who plays as a Full Forward for the Cork senior team.
Contents
- Paudie o sullivan scores a point for cork v clare
- Paudie o sullivan top 5 facts
- College
- Club
- Inter county
- Inter provincial
- Team
- References
Born in Cloyne, County Cork, O'Sullivan first played competitive hurling during his schooling at Midleton CBS Secondary School. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Cork minor team, before later joining the under-21 side. He made his senior debut during the 2007 National Hurling League. O'Sullivan has since become a regular member of the starting fifteen, and has won one Munster medal.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team O'Sullivan has won one Railway Cup medal. At club level he has won several championship medals with Cloyne.
O'Sullivan's brother, Diarmuid, is a three-time All-Ireland medalist with Cork, while his father, Jerry, has filled a number of important administrative roles with the Cork County Board and the Munster Council.
Paudie o sullivan top 5 facts
College
During his secondary schooling at Midleton CBS, O'Sullivan was a key member of the senior hurling team. He won a Dr. Harty Cup medal in 2006 following a narrow 2-8 to 0-12 defeat of St. Flannan's College.
Club
O'Sullivan plays his club hurling and Gaelic football with Cloyne and has enjoyed some success.
In 2004 he was just fifteen years-old when he made his debut with the club's senior team. The following three years proved difficult for Cloyne as the club became the first team in over sixty years to lose three successive senior championship deciders. In spite of these defeats O'Sullivan was regularly one of the top scorers in the championship.
After capturing three successive divisional junior football championship medals between 2008 and 2010, O'Sullivan's side reached the county decider at the third attempt. A narrow 0-10 to 0-9 defeat of White's Cross gave him a championship medal.
Inter-county
O'Sullivan arrived on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor team in 2005. He won his first Munster medal that year following a 2-18 to 1-12 defeat of Limerick.
Cork retained their provincial crown in 2006, with O'Sullivan collecting a second Munster medal following a 2-20 to 1-15 defeat of Tipperary.
A subsequent stint with the Cork under-21 team yielded little success.
O'Sullivan made his senior debut for Cork in a 1-21 to 1-14 National Hurling League defeat of Offaly on 18 February 2007. He subsequently ruptured a cruciate ligament and was ruled out of Cork's championship panel.
On 8 June 2008 O'Sullivan was given his first championship start, when he was named at right corner-forward in a 1-19 to 1-13 Munster semi-final defeat by Tipperary.
Two months before Cork's opening championship game in 2013, O'Sullivan suffered a serious leg break in a club match which ruled him out for the rest of the season. After a fourteen-month lay-off O'Sullivan returned to inter-county action. He was introduced as a second half substitute and scored a point inside ten seconds in Cork's 0-28 to 0-14 Munster quarter-final replay defeat of Waterford. O'Sullivan later made a similar cameo appearance during the provincial decider. A personal tally of 1-1, together with a goal from Séamus Harnedy, gave Cork a 2-24 to 0-24 victory over Limerick. It was O'Sullivan's first Munster medal.
Inter-provincial
O'Sullivan also had the honour of being picked for Munster in the inter-provincial series of games. He won an Interprovincial Championship medal in 2013 as Munster defeated Connacht by 1-22 to 0-15.