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 guided IT Carlow to the Sigerson cup final 2020.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Dual player | ||
| Born | Portlaoise, County Laois | ||
| Nickname | Zoom, GOAT | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Portlaoise | |||
Playing career edit
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 and remains the only Laois player to receive this award.[2]
Coaching career edit
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 edit
Pat was a physical education and English teacher at Scoil Chriost Ri, Portlaoise.[2] His autobiography is called Hungry Hill.[2]
References edit
- ^ Hogan, Vincent (20 February 1999). "Critchley's Éire Óg march to new beat". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ 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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