Considine first played hurling in his local area with the Ennis Dalcassians club.
By that stage, Considine was already playing for the Clare senior hurling team, having made his debut in 1904.
He won a Munster SHC medal in 1914, before later lining out at corner-back in Clare's defeat of Laois in the 1914 All-Ireland final.
Considine's younger brothers, Tull and Brendan, also played inter-county hurling.
[4] He was a close friend of Éamon de Valera, was a canvasser in the 1917 East Clare by-election campaign before later playing a role with the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.