Bermingham also earned inclusion on the Avondhu divisional team that won the Cork SFC title in 1961.
He subsequently transferred to the Bantry Blues club with whom he won consecutive West Cork JAFC titles.
Bermingham won a second Cork SFC title as a member of the Carbery divisional team in 1968.
[3] Bermingham's inter-county career was subsequently interrupted when, as a welder with Verolme, he was seconded to work on the ship building industry in Holland.
[4] Bermingham was an unused substitute when Cork were beaten by Meath in the 1967 All-Ireland final.