| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Pádraig Carney | |
| Irish: | Pádraig Ó Cearnaigh |
| Birth Date: | 1928 |
| Occupation: | Doctor |
| Nickname: | The Flying Doctor |
| County: | Mayo |
| Province: | Connacht |
| Club: | Castlebar Mitchels |
| Clyears: | 1940s–1950s |
| Clcounty: | 2 |
| Counties: | Mayo |
| Icposition: | Midfield |
| Icyears: | 1945–1954 |
| Icapps(Points): | 25 (2–72) |
| Icprovince: | 4 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nfl: | 2 |
| Birth Place: | Swinford, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Death Place: | California |
Pádraig Carney (1928 - 9 June 2019) was a Gaelic footballer who played as a centre-forward for the senior Mayo county team.[1] He was one of the last two living players from the winning 1951 Mayo team, the other being Paddy Prendergast. Carney first played for the senior team while he was still a minor in the 1946 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the National League final in 1954. During that time, he won two All-Ireland medals, four Connacht medals and two National League medals.[2] Carney also had the distinction of being the first player to score a goal from a penalty in an All-Ireland final.
Carney played club football with a range of clubs. However, it was with Castlebar Mitchels that he won two county championship medals.
He died in June 2019, at the age of 91.[3]
| Team | Season | Connacht | All-Ireland | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Mayo | 1946 | 3 | 0-07 | 0 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-07 | |
| 1947 | 1 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | ||
| 1948 | 4 | 0-14 | 2 | 1-03 | 6 | 1-17 | ||
| 1949 | 3 | 0-16 | 1 | 0-06 | 4 | 0-22 | ||
| 1950 | 1 | 0-04 | 2 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-05 | ||
| 1951 | 1 | 0-03 | 3 | 0-06 | 4 | 0-09 | ||
| 1952 | 2 | 0-06 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-06 | ||
| 1953 | 2 | 1-06 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 1-06 | ||
| Total | 17 | 1-56 | 8 | 1-16 | 25 | 2-72 | ||