Charlie Tobin

Charles (Charlie) Tobin (15 September 1911 – 11 June 1993) was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and was a member of both the Cork and Dublin senior inter-county teams in the 1930s and 1940s.

Playing career

Tobin joined the Glen Rovers senior team in 1937 and won the first of five successive county senior championship titles that year. Renowned as a high goal-scoring forward, he claimed a further two winners' medals in 1944 and 1945. He still today (2024) has the highest scoring record of six goals and one point in the 1940 Cork County hurling final.

Having never played at inter-county underage or junior levels, Tobin was drafted onto the Cork senior team during the 1940 Munster Championship. He was dropped from the team the following year before being reinstated in 1942. Tobin claimed a Munster Championship medal that year before lining out at left corner-forward in the All-Ireland final defeat of Dublin.

Personal life and death

Tobin, who was a soldier in the Irish Army and 37 years working in Sunbeam Wolsey Cork. He was married to Ellen (Nellie) Golden. They had two sons and five daughters, Mick, Pauline, David, Margaret, Eleanor, Anne and Amanda.

Charlie Tobin died aged 82 on 11 June 1993 in Cork City.

Honours

Glen Rovers Cork Senior Hurling Championship (7): 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945

Cork All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1942 Munster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1942