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{{short description|Irish hurler}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox Gaelic Athletic Association player
| code           = Hurling
| sport          = Hurling
| image          = 
| name           = Mick Bermingham
| irish          = Mícheál Bermingham
| fullname       = Michael Bermingham
| birth_date        = <!-- {{birth date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|df=y}} -->
| birth_place       = Ireland
| height            = <!-- {{height|m=1.xx}} -->
| county         = Dublin | New York
| province       = Leinster
| club           = [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Kilmacud Crokes]]
| clposition     = Forward
| clubs          = [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Kilmacud Crokes]]<br />Galway ([[New York Senior Hurling Championship|New York]])
| clyears        = 1951-1983<br />1964-1973
| clapps(points) = 
| clcounty       = 2<br />5 (New York titles)
| clprovince     = 
| clallireland   = 
| counties       = [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]]
| icposition     = Right Corner Forward
| icyears        = 1961-1977
| icapps(points) = 58 (33-139)
| icprovince     = 1
| icallireland   = 
| nhl            =
| allstars       = 1 
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}}

'''Michael Bermingham''' is an [[Irish people|Irish]] sportsperson. He played [[hurling]] for the [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Kilmacud Crokes]] club from 1951 until 1983 and was a member of the [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]] senior inter-county team.

Bermingham was selected on the Rest of Ireland Team in 1965. This was like the fore-runner to the [[GAA GPA All Stars Awards|All Stars]], a team sponsored by the now defunct “Gaelic Weekly”. In 1971 he was selected at right-corner-forward in the first ever All Stars team, Dublin’s first All Star, having finished the season as one of the top scorers. In 1984 he was named on the Centenary Team of players who had not won [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship|All-Ireland]] honours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com/History/Personalities/MickBerminghamDublinsFirstAllstar/tabid/898/Default.aspx|title=Mick Bermingham, Dublin Hurling Legend|accessdate=2010-02-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713151707/http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com/History/Personalities/MickBerminghamDublinsFirstAllstar/tabid/898/Default.aspx|archivedate=2011-07-13}}</ref>

==Early years==
Bermingham was born in Ireland began playing in his youth.

==Playing career==
===Club===
Bermingham won ten club championships, seven of which while playing in New York between 1965 and 1974. He won two [[Dublin Senior Hurling Championship]]s in 1974 and 1976 and an [[Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship|Intermediate Championship]] in 1982.

Bermingham played his first game for [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Kilmacud Crokes]] in 1951 and, with a few interruptions, continued to play for the club until 1983, when business pressures put him off the panel. As a juvenile, Bermingham played in a number of games, including in the first ever Under 13 Juvenile Championships (beaten in the Irish Press Shield final). During the early 1950s, he played [[Scoil Uí Chonaill]] in the Under 15 Final. He also played on the Under 16½ team that won the championship in 1955.

There was a temporary split in the club in the early 1960s, which resulted in the formation of Dalcassians. A number of younger [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Crokes]] players left to join the new club and even won a Minor Championship, captained by Bermingham, in 1960. Differences had been resolved by 1962 and in 1963, with forces joined afresh, a team (boasting a substantial majority of [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Crokes]] players) representing the Junior Hurling Board won the Senior Championship and the Intermediate Championship was also won by [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Crokes]] that year.

One of the biggest influences on Bermingham was John Howard.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} John Howard, was a Garda stationed at Pearse St in central Dublin, was also one of the reasons Bermingham did not opt to play for [[Faughs]], despite the fact that his father Ned was a committed [[Faughs]] supporter and his cousin Mick Gill was a star of the team in the 1930s and 1940s. [[Faughs]] did not have a juvenile team and, as the young [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Crokes]] stars developed and bonded under the guidance of John Howard, there was every incentive to stay put.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

Bermingham continues to be involved in [[Kilmacud Crokes GAA|Crokes]] and was part of the Senior Team Management until 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com/History/Personalities/MickBerminghamDublinsFirstAllstar/tabid/898/Default.aspx|title=Mick Bermingham, Dublin Hurling Legend|accessdate=2010-02-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713151707/http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com/History/Personalities/MickBerminghamDublinsFirstAllstar/tabid/898/Default.aspx|archivedate=2011-07-13}}</ref>

===Inter-county===
In 1961, [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]] beat [[Wexford GAA|Wexford]] 7-5 to 4-8 in the [[Leinster Senior Hurling Championship|Leinster Final]] and went on to play [[Tipperary GAA|Tipperary]] in the [[1961 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final|All-Ireland Final]] where they were narrowly beaten 0-16 to 1-12. However, due to injury, Bermingham did not get to play in either game.

===Inter-provincial===
Bermingham won six [[Railway Cup]] medals with [[Leinster GAA|Leinster]], these include a double (1964–65) and a four in a row (1971–74).

==Honours==

===Dalcassians===
*'''[[Dublin Minor Hurling Championship]]'''
:'''Winner (1):''' 1960 (Capt.)

===Galway===
*'''[[New York Senior Hurling Championship]]'''
:'''Winner (5):''' 1964, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1973

===Kilmacud Crokes===

*'''[[Dublin Senior Hurling Championship]]'''
:'''Winner (2):''' 1974, 1976
*'''[[Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship]]'''
:'''Winner (1):''' 1982

===Dublin===

*'''[[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship]]'''
:''Runner-up (1):'' [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1961|1961]]
*'''[[Leinster Senior Hurling Championship]]'''
:'''Winner (1):''' [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1961|1961]]

===Leinster===

*'''[[Interprovincial Championship|Railway Cup]]'''
:'''Winner (6):''' 1964, 1965, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974

===Individual===

*'''[[Hurling Team of the Century|Hurling Team of the Century (Non-All-Ireland Winners)]]'''
:'''Winner (1):''' 1984
*'''[[GAA All Stars Awards|GAA All-Star]]'''
:'''Winner (1):''' [[GAA All Stars Awards winners (hurling)#1971: First "All Star" Awards|1971]]
* '''Rest of Ireland Team'''
:'''Winner (1):''' 1965

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com/ Official Kilmacud Crokes Hurling Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225726/http://www.kilmacudcrokes-hurling.com/Default.aspx?tabid=8096 Biographical Information]
*[http://www.hill16.ie/ Official Dublin Website]
*[http://www.hoganstand.com/Dublin/ Dublin Website]

==Teams==
{{1971 Hurling All Stars}}
{{Hurling Team of the Century 2}}

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