Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Patrick Harrington | |
Irish: | Pádraig Ó hArrachtáin |
Feet: | 6 |
Inches: | 0 |
Occupation: | Garda Síochána |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Ardgroom Garda |
Clposition: | Full-back |
Clcounty: | 0 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Full-back |
Icyears: | 1950s–1960s |
Icprovince: | 2 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 1 |
Birth Date: | 1933 |
Birth Place: | Ardgroom, County Cork, Ireland |
Death Place: | St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland |
Patrick Harrington (1933 – July 2005), known as Paddy Harrington, was an Irish sportsman. He played Gaelic football with his local club Ardgroom in Cork and Garda in Dublin. Harrington was also a member of the Cork senior inter-county team in the 1950s and 1960s.[1] His son, Pádraig Harrington is a professional golfer and has won three major championships.
Harrington died in St. James's Hospital on from esophageal cancer at the age of 72.[2]