Back on the hurling front McCarthy won a fourth and final Cork SHC winners' medal after a record crowd of 34,151 saw St Finbarr's beat Glen Rovers by twelve points in the 1977 final.
The text describes McCarthy winning his fourth and final Cork Senior Hurling Championship title in the 1977 final, where St Finbarr's defeated Glen Rovers by twelve points to a record-breaking crowd of 34,151 spectators.