Pat McGrath (Tipperary hurler)

Pat McGrath, born in 1961 in Loughmore, County Tipperary, is an Irish retired hurler and Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career with the Tipperary senior teams in both codes spanned nine seasons from 1981 to 1989. Raised in a family with a strong affinity for Gaelic games, he was the son of Mick McGrath, who with his uncles won county championships with Loughmore-Castleiney in the 1950s. He attended Rockwell College, and as a dual player at senior level won a total of five county championship medals. Picked for both Tipperary minor teams at sixteen, he played three seasons as a dual player there and won back-to-back All-Ireland under-21 medals in 1980 and 1981. He joined the Tipperary senior hurling team and later the senior football team, and won his sole All-Ireland medal in 1989, having earlier collected a Munster medal. His sons Noel and John are also All-Ireland medal winners with Tipperary.