Jackie Power
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Seán de Paor | ||
| Sport | Dual player | ||
| Football Position: | Half-forward | ||
| Hurling Position: | Half-forward | ||
| Born |
30 May 1916 Annacotty, County Limerick |
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| Died | 23 February 1994 (aged 77) | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Ahane | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Limerick titles | 15 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1935-1948 1930s-1940s |
Limerick (H) Limerick (F) |
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| Inter-county titles | |||
| Football | Hurling | ||
| Munster Titles | - | 2 | |
| All-Ireland Titles | - | 2 | |
| League titles | - | 4 | |
| All-Stars | - | 1 | |
Jackie Power (30 May 1916 - 23 February 1994) was an Irish sportsperson. A renowned dual player, he played both hurling and Gaelic football with his local club Ahane and with the Limerick senior inter-county teams in both codes from 1935 until 1949. He later played with the Kerry senior hurling team.
Jackie Power was born in Annacotty, County Limerick in 1916. He was educated at his local national school where he was introduced to the game of hurling by his teacher. In his teens Power showed promise at athletics, however, he decided to forfeit this interest and concentrate on Gaelic games.
Power played his club hurling and football with his local club in Ahane and enjoyed much success. Ahane, spearheaded by Mick Mackey, John Mackey and Power, were the kingpins of Limerick hurling at the time. He won his first senior county title with the club as a seventeen-year-old in 1933. It was the first of seven county championship victories in-a-row for Power and his club. He won an eighth county medal in 1942, the first of another seven county victories in-a-row. Power captured his fifteenth county hurling medal with Ahane in 1955.
Power also enjoyed much success as a member of the Ahane senior football team. He won five senior county football titles in-a-row with Ahane between 1935 and 1939.
Power played junior and senior football with Limerick in the 1930s, however, it was at hurling that he had major success. He made his senior inter-county debut in 1935, winning a Munster Championship medal that same year. Limerick were later defeated by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. By 1936 Power was a regular fixture on the team. He won a second Munster title that year before claiming his first All-Ireland medal with an emphatic victory over Kilkenny. Four years later in 1940 Power won his third Munster medal which was subsequently converted into a second All-Ireland medal. 1940 was a watershed for Limerick’s hurlers. It was their last Munster and All-Ireland titles for 33 years. Power continued inter-county hurling until 1949, captaining Limerick to a National Hurling League title in 1947. It was his fourth NHL medal in all, with previous victories in 1936, 1937 and 1938.
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