# Barney Curley

Bernard Joseph Curley (5 October 1939 – 23 May 2021) was an Irish racehorse trainer and gambler. == Biography == Born one of six children to Kathleen and Charlie Curley. He initially trained as a seminarian, in the interest of joining the priesthood and becoming a Jesuit priest, but nine years into his training contracted TB, he owned a pub, he went into music management, serving as manager of Frankie McBride and the Polka Dots, that had a hit on the British singles chart with a maudlin song Five Little Fingers.