Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic Football |
Pádraigh Griffin | |
Irish: | Pádraigh Ó Gríofa |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 8 |
Nickname: | Griff |
Occupation: | Secondary school teacher |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Clonakilty |
Clyears: | 1993–2012 |
Clapps(Points): | 58 (19–79) |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Colleges: | University College Cork |
Sig: | 0 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Full-forward |
Icyears: | 1997–2004 |
Icprovince: | 0 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Birth Date: | 1975 |
Birth Place: | Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland |
Death Date: | 22 October 2022 (aged 47) Death directly related to Tinnitus & Hyperacusis |
Death Place: | Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland |
Pádraigh Griffin (1975 – 22 October 2022) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with Clonakilty and was also a member of the Cork senior football team.
Griffin first played Gaelic football at juvenile and underage levels with Clonakilty.[1] He also lined out as a schoolboy with Clonakilty Community College and won an All-Ireland VSFC title with the Cork vocational schools' team in 1994. Griffin first played for Clonakilty at adult level as a member of the junior team. He was a member of the club's senior team that won the Cork SFC title in 1996, before claiming a second winners' medal in 2009.[2] [3]
Griffin's performances at club level earned a call-up to the Cork under-21 team in 1996.[4] He was drafted onto the senior team in 1997. Griffin made a number of appearances in various National League campaigns before being included on the Cork championship team.[5] He also lined out for the junior team.[6]
His father, Pat Griffin, was a two-time All-Ireland SFC medal-winner with Kerry in 1969 and 1970.[7] Griffin died on 22 October 2022, at the age of 47.[8] [9]
1994