He helped the club to win the first Mid Kerry Senior Football Championship in 1947.
He won a Munster Minor Football Championship title scoring 1-01 in an 8-09 to 1-02 win over Cork i the final.
He won a Munster Championship medal that season, however, the highlight of his brief inter-county career was the 1946 All-Ireland final replay defeat of Roscommon.
[3][4] Burke was born in Milltown, County Kerry and worked as a health inspector.
His sporting career was cut short by illness and he died at the age of 34 on 14 November 1955.