Dermot Mac Curtain
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Diarmuid Mac Curtain | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Left wing-back | ||
| Born |
6 April 1957 Blackrock, Cork, Ireland |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Occupation | Insurance representative | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1970s-1990s | Blackrock | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Cork titles | 4 | ||
| Munster titles | 3 | ||
| All-Ireland Titles | 2 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1977-1987 | Cork | 35 (0-3) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 8 | ||
| All-Irelands | 3 | ||
| NHL | 2 | ||
| All Stars | 3 | ||
Dermot Mac Curtain (born 1957) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Blackrock and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1977 until 1987.
Mac Curatin was barely out of the minor ranks when he joined the Blackrock senior team in 1975. That year he lined out in his first county final as 'the Rockies' faced Glen Rovers. He collected a county senior championship winners' medal on that occasion following a remarkable 4-11 to 0-10 victory. Blackrock later represented Cork in the Munster series of games and reached the final. Waterford's Mount Sion provided the opposition; however, Blackrock recorded a huge 8-12 to 3-8 win. It was Mac Curtain's first provincial club winners' medal. The subsequent All-Ireland final pitted Blackrock against James Stephens. Five points down at half-time, the Kilkenny club came storming back and defeated Mac Curatin's side by 2-10 to 2-4.
Even though Glen Rovers gained revenge in the county final of 1976, Blackrock bounced back in 1978. Once again it was 'the Glen' who stood in 'the Rockies' way; however, Mac Curtain added a second county championship medal to his collection following a huge 4-12 to 1-7 victory. Once again 'the Rockies' stormed through the provincial championship and defeated Newmarket-on-Fergus in the final by two goals, giving Mac Curtain a second Munster club medal. The subsequent All-Ireland final saw Cork take on Kilkenny again. This time it was Blackrock versus Ballyhale Shamrocks. Ray Cummins scored two goals in rapid succession in the opening thirty minutes to put his club in the driving seat. At the full-time whistle Blackrock were the winners by 5-7 to 5-5. It was Mac Curtain's first All-Ireland club winners' medal.
In 1979 Blackrock made it two county titles in-a-row after an eight-point defeat of St. Finbarr's. In a similar sequence of events to previous years the club later defeated Dunhill of Waterford to take the Munster club title. It was Mac Curtain's third provincial club medal. Blackrock's All-Ireland trail came to an end at the semi-final stage.
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