Patrick "Paddy" Barry (1928 – 18 December 2000) was an Irish hurler who played as a left corner-forward for the Cork senior team.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Barry won four Railway Cup medal.
Cork won all of their games and topped the league with six points, with Barry winning a Fitzgibbon Cup medal as a substitute.
That year the Sarsfields senior hurlers reached the final of the championship where they faced reigning champions and four-in-a-row hopefuls Glen Rovers.
[3] In 1957 Barry collected a second championship medal as Sarsfields defeated University College Cork by 5–10 to 4–6 to take their second ever county title.
On 30 November 1947 Barry made his senior debut for Cork in a 7–5 to 5–5 league group game defeat by Wexford.
He was at left corner-forward for the subsequent final against Tipperary, and collected his first National Hurling League medal after Cork's 3-3 to 1–2 victory.
On 18 July 1948 Daly made a goal-scoring senior championship debut in a 5–3 to 2–5 Munster semi-final defeat of Limerick.
A successful club championship campaign with Sarsfield's saw Barry secure a regular place on the starting fifteen as captain in 1952.
After the match at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin a fight broke out when another Galway player struck Cork's Christy Ring.
[5][6] Cork secured a third successive provincial title in 1954, with Barry collecting a third Munster medal following a narrow 2–8 to 1–8 defeat of Tipperary.
A 5–5 to 3–5 defeat of Limerick, courtesy of a hat trick of goals by Christy Ring, secured a fourth Munster medal in five seasons for Barry.
The game has gone down in history as one of the all-time classics as Christy Ring was bidding for a record ninth All-Ireland medal.
The game turned on one important incident as the Wexford goalkeeper, Art Foley, made a miraculous save from a Ring shot and cleared the sliotar up the field to set up another attack.
[8][9] Cork hurling took a sharp downturn over the next few years as Waterford and Tipperary became the dominant teams in the provincial championship.
Munster retained the inter-provincial crown in 1958, with Barry collecting a third Railway Cup medal following a narrow 3–7 to 3–5 defeat of Leinster.