Paddy Fenning

Paddy Fenning was an Irish Gaelic footballer, born on 25 June 1950 and died on 15 May 2020, who won two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals with the Offaly county team. At club level he played for Tullamore, with whom he won Offaly county senior championship medals in 1973 and 1977. His inter-county career began at underage level, where he claimed Leinster Under-21 Championship medals in 1968 and 1971. He made his senior debut for Offaly in 1970 in a tournament game at Wembley Stadium, and came on as a substitute in the 1971 All-Ireland final against Galway to win his first title. In 1972 he scored a goal from 50 yards in the final replay win over Kerry, giving him a second successive winners' medal. His eleven seasons with Offaly ended after an All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Kerry in 1980, by which time he had made 91 League and Championship appearances and won four Leinster titles. He also won a Railway Cup medal with Leinster in 1974. After retiring he raised funds for local projects in Tullamore and was named Offaly Person of the Year in 2011. He died aged 69, having been diagnosed with motor neuron disease the previous year.