[1] Power first played Gaelic football as a student at Mitchelstown CBS before joining the Blackthorns club side in the late 1940s.
He progressed to adult level with Mitchelstown and won seven North Cork JFC titles in a ten-year period between 1951 and 1961, including two as team captain in 1956 and 1957.
[4] This success earned an immediate call-up to the senior team and he was goalkeeping understudy to Pádraig Tyers for Cork's defeat by Galway in the 1956 All-Ireland final.
[6][7] His performances for Cork also earned inclusion on the Munster team in the Railway Cup.
[8] Power died after suffering a heart attack while attending the 1998 Munster final on 5 July 1998.