Paddy Fenning

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.

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.

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.^{[citation needed]}

Fenning died aged 69 on 15 May 2020, having been diagnosed with motor neuron disease the previous year. He was survived by his wife Kathryn and two children.^{[citation needed]}

Tullamore

• Offaly Senior Football Championship (2): 1973, 1977

Offaly

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2): 1971, 1972
• Leinster Senior Football Championship (4): 1971, 1972, 1973, 1980
• Leinster Under-21 Football Championship (2): 1968, 1971

Leinster

• Railway Cup (1): 1974