Pat Critchley
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (June 2010) |
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Sport | Dual player | ||
Born | Portlaoise, County Laois | ||
Nickname | Zoom, GOAT | ||
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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.
- All Stars Awards winners (hurling)
- Living people
- Dual players
- Gaelic football coaches
- Hurling coaches
- Laois GAA
- Laois inter-county hurlers
- Portlaoise Gaelic footballers
- Portlaoise hurlers
- Leinster hurling biography stubs
- Laois GAA stubs