Pa Morrissey

Patrick Morrissey, known as Pa and born in 1981 in Bansha, County Tipperary, is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a right wing-back for the Tipperary senior team. He first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty with the Tipperary under-21 team as a dual player, before joining the intermediate hurling and junior football sides. He joined the senior football and hurling panels during the 2005 championships, became a regular in the starting fifteen of both teams and won one Tommy Murphy Cup medal. At club level he is a one-time championship medallist with Galtee Rovers, and his brother Colin also represented Tipperary in hurling and Gaelic football. He retired from inter-county football after the 2008 championship.