Kevin Fitzpatrick is a Gaelic football player from

County Laois County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medie ...

in Ireland. He plays his club football for

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and was also a member of the Laois senior team. A very talented

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player in his teenage years, Kevin was part of the Laois team which won the county's first ever All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1996 and in 2003 he was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time in 57 years. Although the versatile

clubman has gone on to play at the highest level with club and county, he has also been a little unlucky from time to time in his career. Even on that great day in 2003, as he watched his clubmate

Ian Fitzgerald Ian Fitzgerald is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois. He played his club football for Portlaoise and was also a member of the Laois senior team. He was part of the Laois Under 21 side that won the Leinster title in 1998 and was unfor ...

lift the Delaney Cup, Kevin must have felt a pang of regret at his first half dismissal which ruled him out of the subsequent All-Ireland quarter final against

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. He was sorely missed on that day. Injuries haven’t been kind to Kevin either and he missed a lot of football with a long-standing groin problem. Fitzy has won Laois Senior Football Championship medals with Portlaoise in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 (as captain), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and was chosen as Laois captain in 2005 in the absence of Colm Parkinson. In late 2006, Kevin was recalled to the Laois senior squad under the new manager Liam Kearns.

References

Times article 2005

2003 Leinster final report - Irish Examiner
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