# Charlie Tobin

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{{short description|Irish hurler}}
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{{Infobox Gaelic games player
| code = Hurling
| sport = Hurling
| image = 
| name = Charlie Tobin
| irish = Cathal Tóibín
| height = 
| nickname = 
| occupation = Factory Worker
| county = Blackpool, Cork
| province = Munster
| club = [Glen Rovers](/source/Glen_Rovers_GAA)
| clposition = Forward
| clubs = 
| clyears = 1929-1947
| clapps(points) = 
| clcounty = 7 Cork Winners Medals
| clprovince = Munster
| clallireland = 
| counties = [Cork](/source/Cork_GAA)
| icposition = Right corner-forward
| icyears = 1939-1942
| icapps(points) = 
| icprovince = 1
| icallireland = 1
| nhl = 
| clupdate = 
| icupdate = 
| birth_date = 15 September 1911
| birth_place = [Blackpool](/source/Blackpool%2C_Cork), [Cork](/source/Cork_(city)), [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland)
| death_date = 11 June 1993 (aged 82)
| death_place = [Cork](/source/Cork_(city)), [Ireland](/source/Ireland)
}}
'''Charles (Charlie) Tobin''' (15 September 1911 – 11 June 1993) was an [Irish](/source/Irish_people) sportsperson. He played [hurling](/source/hurling) with his local club [Glen Rovers](/source/Glen_Rovers_GAA) and was a member of both the [Cork](/source/Cork_GAA) and [Dublin](/source/Dublin_GAA) senior inter-county teams in the 1930s and 1940s.

==Playing career==

Tobin joined the [Glen Rovers](/source/Glen_Rovers_GAA) senior team in [1937](/source/1937_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship) and won the first of five successive [county senior championship](/source/Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship) titles that year. Renowned as a high goal-scoring forward, he claimed a further two winners' medals in [1944](/source/1944_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship) and [1945](/source/1945_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship). He still today (2024) has the highest scoring record of six goals and one point in the 1940 Cork County hurling final.

Having never played at inter-county underage or junior levels, Tobin was drafted onto the Cork senior team during the [1940 Munster Championship](/source/1940_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship). He was dropped from the team the following year before being reinstated in [1942](/source/1942_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship). Tobin claimed a [Munster Championship](/source/Munster_Senior_Hurling_Championship) medal that year before lining out at left corner-forward in the [All-Ireland final](/source/1942_All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship_Final) defeat of [Dublin](/source/Dublin_GAA).
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/four-timers-from-leeside-still-unique-1.264755?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fsport%2Ffour-timers-from-leeside-still-unique-1.264755|title=Four-timers from Leeside still unique|publisher=Irish Times|date=27 December 1999|accessdate=15 May 2020|first=Seán|last=Moran}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clarechampion.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1575:four-all-ireland-titles-in-a-row&catid=76:history&Itemid=55|title= Four All-Ireland titles in a row|publisher=Clare Champion|date=|accessdate=25 February 2013|first=Michael|last=Torpey}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==

Tobin, who was a soldier in the [Irish Army](/source/Irish_Army) and 37 years working in Sunbeam Wolsey Cork. He was married to Ellen (Nellie) Golden. They had two sons and five daughters, Mick, Pauline, David, Margaret, Eleanor, Anne and Amanda.

Charlie Tobin died aged 82 on 11 June 1993 in Cork City.

==Honours==

;Glen Rovers
*[Cork Senior Hurling Championship](/source/Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship) (7): [1937](/source/1937_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship), [1938](/source/1938_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship), [1939](/source/1939_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship), [1940](/source/1940_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship), [1941](/source/1941_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship), [1944](/source/1944_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship), [1945](/source/1945_Cork_Senior_Hurling_Championship)

;Cork
*[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship](/source/All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship) (1): [1942](/source/1942_All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship)
*[Munster Senior Hurling Championship](/source/Munster_Senior_Hurling_Championship) (1): [1942](/source/1942_All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship)

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