Tommy McCarthy (hurler)

{{short description|Irish hurler}}

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| name = Tommy McCarthy

| irish = Tomás Mac Cárthaigh

| fullname = Thomas Patrick McCarthy

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| county = Limerick

| province = Munster

| club = Kilfinane
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| icyears = 1927-1938

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| birth_date = 10 August 1905

| birth_place=Kilfinane, County Limerick, Ireland

| death_date = June 1968 (aged 62)

| death_place = New York City, United States

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Thomas Patrick McCarthy (August 1905 – June 1968) was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-forward for the Limerick senior team.{{cite web|url=http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/leader-local/president-of-the-gaa-to-unveil-plaque-in-honour-of-limerick-hurling-legend-1-2982981|title=President of the GAA to unveil plaque in honour of Limerick hurling legend|publisher=Limerick Leader|date=24 August 2011|accessdate=23 July 2013|first=Áine|last=Fitzgerald}}

McCarthy was born on 10 August 1905 in Kilfinane, County Limerick, to Thomas McCarthy and Nora Fitzgerald.{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Limerick/Ardpatrick/Mortlestown/621411/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911}} His great uncle was Irish Nationalist James Gubbins Fitzgerald.

McCarthy first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he first linked up with the Limerick senior team. He made his debut in the 1927-28 Thomond Feis. McCarthy went on to play a key part for Limerick during a golden age for the team, and won two All-Ireland medals, four Munster medals and four National Hurling League medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.

McCarthy represented the Munster inter-provincial team at various times during his career, winning three Railway Cup medals. At club level he won fifteen championship medals with Ahane.