Mark Foley (Limerick hurler)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Marc Ó Foghlú | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Left wing-back | ||
| Born |
17 April 1975 Cork, Ireland |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Occupation | Publican | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1993-present | Adare | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Limerick titles | 5 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1995-2009 | Limerick | 47 (?-??) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 1 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
| NHL | 1 | ||
| All Stars | 2 | ||
Mark Foley (born 17 April 1975 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Adare and was a member of the Limerick senior inter-county team from 1995 until 2009.
Mark Foley was born in Cork in 1975 and when he was nine months old his family moved to Adare, County Limerick. He was born into a family that had a great interest in Gaelic games. His father would later serve as a selector with the Limerick senior hurling team. Foley was educated locally and later attended Mary Immaculate College in Limerick where he studied to be a primary school teacher. Here he played on both the college hurling and college football teams.
Foley plays his club hurling with his local Adare team. He has had much success with the club, winning under-12, under-14, under-16 and minor county medals throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2001 and 2002. Foley won back-to-back senior county championship medals with Adare. They were beaten in the 2003 final by Patrickswell. In 2007 he (and Adare) won a third county senior championship and a fourth in 2008.
In early 2013 Foley played junior hurling with Castletown/Ballyagran the very same parish as where he run's the local pub, however there was mixed fortunes for the club as they won the South junior hurling championship but were then beaten in a county semi final by local rivals Feenagh/Kilmeedy
On 30 December 2013 Foley was announced Vice Chairman of Castletown/Ballyagran GAA club .
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