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ULTIMATELY, Dave Barry matched David Beggy’s All-ireland medal count as Cork came good in 1989 and retained the title the following year to complete the historic double.
By and large, he served his two masters, Morgan and Noel O’mahony, the Cork City manager, well. When there was a clash between the two, the Cork footballers came first.
“I always wanted to win an All-ireland with Cork so if there was a clash I’d play GAA and Cork City never had a problem with that,” said Barry (below).
Though not yet 30, his county career came to a natural conclusion, he felt, in 1991. There were no more frontiers to conquer once Kerry burst their bubble that year.
“To actually go into that [1990] final with the hurlers after winning a couple of weeks before that, that put a savage pressure on that team and to actually go out and produce and win in 1990, there was a sense of relief after winning the double
“In ‘91 we gave it a go to try and keep it going but I felt I had achieved what I wanted to achieve and, as well as that, I was lucky enough to look at Cork City and say, ‘They have never won a league title’ so I gave my commitment there.”
He scored his famous goal against Bayern Munich later that year and City won the League of Ireland in 1992/93. He later went on to manage the club and has also coached in Gaelic football.
Cork GAA may have been slow to move with the times but Barry feels that they’ve got there at long last. Indeed, the new Pairc Ui Chaoimh has yet to be filled for Gaelic games and its only capacity crowd was for a soccer match.
“It has changed big time down in Cork.
What brought that home to me was Liam
Miller’s testimonial going down to Pairc Ui Chaoimh. There was a lot of controversy at the start, a lot of old tension there.
“Turners Cross, it turned out, with Roy Keane involved, was just too small for the crowd, so when I went out there and I saw 40,000 people down in Pairc Ui Chaoimh and I met lads up from West Cork, steeped in GAA, and they came up. Things have moved on, thanks be to God.”