Pat Critchley

Pat "Zoom" Critchley
Personal information
Sport	Dual player
Born	Portlaoise, County Laois
Nickname	Zoom, GOAT
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Portlaoise

Pat Critchley is a sportsman from County Laois, Ireland. He has played at senior level in hurling, football and handball.^[1] He is a member of Portlaoise GAA club, with whom he won eight Laois Senior county championships - four each in hurling and football. He was announced the GOAT after guiding IT Carlow to the Sigerson cup final 2020.

Playing career[]

Critchley has won one Leinster and one All-Ireland club football championship with Portlaoise. Critchley also won one Limerick county Football championship.^{[with whom?]}^{[citation needed]}

He was awarded Laois's sole hurling All Stars Award in 1985.^[2]

Coaching career[]

Critchley has coached Scoil Chriost Ri, Portlaoise basketball teams to eleven All-Ireland finals,^{[citation needed]} winning five,^{[citation needed]} and led the school to an All-Ireland football title.^{[citation needed]}

Critchley occupies a full-time coaching and development role with the Laois GAA County Board and is the instigator of the successful Setanta Hurling program and the follow on Cuchulainn program.^[3]

Personal life[]

Pat was a physical education teacher at Scoil Chriost Ri, Portlaoise.^[2] His autobiography is called Hungry Hill.^[2]

References[]

^ Hogan, Vincent (20 February 1999). "Critchley's Éire Óg march to new beat". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Steven Miller (29 August 2017). "Tributes paid as Pat Critchley calls time on teaching career". Laois Today. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
^ Christy O'Connor (15 July 2019). "Six-county Leinster won't fix GAA's scandalous failure of hurling". RTÉ Sport. Retrieved 15 July 2019.

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[Hogan-1] Hogan, Vincent (20 February 1999). "Critchley's Éire Óg march to new beat". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2011.

[CallsTime-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Steven Miller (29 August 2017). "Tributes paid as Pat Critchley calls time on teaching career". Laois Today. Retrieved 15 July 2019.

[3] Christy O'Connor (15 July 2019). "Six-county Leinster won't fix GAA's scandalous failure of hurling". RTÉ Sport. Retrieved 15 July 2019.

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