Paddy Cronin (Gaelic footballer)

Patrick Cronin, known as Paddy, (1921 to 21 February 1991) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the club sides Béal Átha'n Ghaorthaidh and Fermoy and, at inter-county level, for the Cork senior football team, usually lining out as a right wing-back. He first came to prominence as a student selected for the Munster colleges team, was included on the Cork minor team in 1938 and won a Munster Minor Championship the following year. Added to the Cork senior team in 1943, he won a Munster Championship that season and a second provincial title in 1945, the year he lined out at right wing-back when Cork beat Cavan in the All-Ireland final. He ended 1945 by captaining his adopted club Fermoy to the County Championship, and he won a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 1946 before a spinal injury ended his inter-county career. He qualified as a national school teacher, worked in Fermoy and Bartlemy and settled in Dublin, where he died at his home in Walkinstown.