| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Paddy Fenning | |
| Irish: | Páidí Ó Fionnáin |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 10 |
| Occupation: | Sales manager |
| County: | Offaly |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Tullamore |
| Clcounty: | 2 |
| Counties: | Offaly |
| Icposition: | Left corner-forward |
| Icyears: | 1969–1980 |
| Icapps(Points): | 32 (1–22) |
| Icprovince: | 4 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nfl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 18:41, 15 May 2020 |
| Birth Date: | 25 June 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland |
| Death Date: | 15 May 2020 (aged 69) |
| Death Place: | Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland |
Patrick Fenning (25 June 1950 – 15 May 2020) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he had success with Tullamore and was a two-time All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner with the Offaly county team.[1]
Fenning's inter-county career with Offaly began at underage level and saw him claim Leinster Under-21 Championship medals in 1968 and 1971. He made his senior debut in 1970 in a tournament game played at Wembley Stadium and won his first All-Ireland Championship the following year after coming on as a substitute in the final against Galway. Fenning claimed a second successive winners' medal in 1972 after scoring a goal from 50 yards in the All-Ireland final replay defeat of Kerry. Fenning's 11-season career with the Offaly senior team ended after an All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Kerry in 1980, by which stage he had made a combined total of 91 League and Championship appearances and also claimed four Leinster Championships. He was also selected for the Leinster inter-provincial team, claiming a Railway Cup medal in 1974, and won county senior championship medals in 1973 and 1977 with Tullamore.[2]
In retirement from playing, Fenning became heavily involved in fund-raising for local causes. He was named Offaly Person of the Year in 2011 in recognition of his management of a number of projects, among them helping erase the debt on Tullamore's GAA social centre; raising €200,000 to purchase a CT scanner for the local hospital as well as supporting an arts centre and municipally-owned swimming pool in Tullamore.
Fenning died aged 69 on 15 May 2020, having been diagnosed with motor neuron disease the previous year.[3] [4] He was survived by his wife Kathryn and two children.