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 guided 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 and remains the only Laois player to receive this award.[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 and English teacher at Scoil Chriost Ri, Portlaoise.[2] His autobiography is called Hungry Hill.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hogan, Vincent (20 February 1999). "Critchley's Éire Óg march to new beat". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  2. ^ 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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