His father was a Garda as well as a former Kerry hurler and footballer and a GAA administrator, while his mother had been very closely involved in the Community Games movement.
[1] McIntyre had been an outstanding campaigner with the Kerry hurlers in the 1990s, playing against top teams such as Clare, Offaly, Tipperery, Kilkenny, Galway and Waterfprd.
To date he has been the only person to captain a Garda College team to a Fitzgibbon Cup Final in 1997 when they lost out to UCC.
On 22 April 2001, McIntyre and fellow Kerryman and Garda George Rice were in Cork responding to an emergency call when their patrol car when they lost control and collided with a hackney travelling in the opposite direction.
The accident was due to a faulty gearbox and in 2007 the court approved a settlement order for the families in the sum of €75,000.