Fintan O'Leary (born 1 September 1986) is an Irish hurler who plays for club side Ballinhassig and is a former player with divisional side Carrigdhoun and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team.
[1] O'Leary first played with Ballinhassig at a young age with success at underage after winning a Under-14 South-East Hurling Championship title in 2000 and the same year they got to the Under-14 "B" County Final, but lost to Kanturk 4-09 to 3-10 after a last gasp score.
The side won: South-East, Cork, Munster and All-Ireland Junior titles.
O'Leary's side failed by the skin of there teeth to lose the 2006 All-Ireland Intermediate Club final to Dicksboro of Kilkenny City on a scoreline of 2-13 to 1-13 after a late a goal by the Dicksboro substitute Alan McIntyre who kicked the slithor into the goal that just got in by fractions going through the net by the bottom-right corner by the left of the post to give "the cats" side the winning goal.
In the same year the club won its first-ever South-East Junior Football Championship after beating Tracton in a replay in Carrigaline after a Michael Sheehan "Golden Goal" to win the game went on to win the same competition in 2015, 2019 and 2021 also coming Runners-Up to Boherbue in the County Final in 2021.