Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Paddy Morrissey | |
Irish: | Padraig Ó Muireasa |
County: | Tipperary |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Galtee Rovers |
Clcounty: | 3 |
Counties: | Tipperary |
Icposition: | Right wing-back |
Icyears: | 1977-1984 |
Icprovince: | 0 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Allstars: | 0 |
Icupdate: | 14:44, 2 August 2015 |
Birth Date: | 1955 |
Birth Place: | Bansha, County Tipperary, Ireland |
Paddy Morrissey (born 1955) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played for the Tipperary senior team.
Born in Bansha, County Tipperary, Morrissey first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor team before later joining the under-21 and junior sides. He joined the Tipperary senior panel during the 1976 championship. Morrissey subsequently became a regular member of the starting fifteen.
At club level Morrissey is a three-time championship medallist with Galtee Rovers.
Morrissey retired from inter-county football following the conclusion of the 1984 championship.
In retirement from playing Morrissey became involved in team management and coaching. He served as a selector with the Tipperary minor and junior teams before taking charge of the senior team as manager.[1]