Eddie O'Brien (born 12 January 1945 in Passage West, County Cork) is a former Irish sportsperson.
He played with the club's tp team throughout the 1960s and 1970s, however, he enjoyed little success apart from a city division senior football title in 1969.
[1] O'Brien first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor hurling team in the early 1960s.
This victory gave Cork a huge boost going into the Munster campaign where the team qualified to meet Tipperary in the final.
Cork were out to avenge the nine-point defeat administered by the same side in 1968 while Tipp were out to capture a third provincial title in-a-row.
It was a victory that made up for all the beatings that Tipp had dished out to Cork in the early part of the decade and it gave O'Brien a first Munster winners’ medal.
‘The Rebels’ led ‘the Cats’ coming into the last quarter, however, Kilkenny scored five unanswered points in the last seven minutes to win by 2-15 to 2-9.
At the start of the year Cork defeated New York with an aggregate score of 5-21 to 6-16 to take the National League title.
On the night before the final O'Brien has admitted to sneaking away from the hotel where his team mates were staying and went to a pub in Dún Laoghaire where he drank nine pints of Guinness.