Patrick Joseph Bermingham (15 March 1886 – January 1959) was an

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police officer and sportsman, specialising in the discus. He was from Moyasta in

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and joined the

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. Bermingham won ten Irish national discus titles: IAAA titles in 1919 and 1920, and NACAI titles in 1923–4–5–6–7, 1930, 1932, and 1933. He held the Irish record at until 1939. He won five English AAA discus titles: 1924–5–6, 1932, and 1934. He also won four Irish titles in each of the 56 lbs weight throw events: for height (1923, 1925–6, 1929) and for distance (1923, 1925–6–7). He represented

Ireland at the 1924 Summer Olympics Ireland competed as a national delegation for the first time at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. The Irish Olympic Council had been admitted to the International Olympic Committee after the Irish Free State's 1922 independence from the United ...

, but was eliminated in the qualifying round of the discus competition; his longest throw would have qualified for the final six but was discounted as a foul. His best mark of ranked him eleventh overall. He is recorded as having competed in the

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, though sources vary as to whether he represented the

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. He finished outside the top seven. He is buried in Mount Jerome cemetery. Several online football databases mistakenly suggest that Bermingham also played for the

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vs Hungary in 1934, but that was a different Patrick Joseph Bermingham.

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* https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105840663/patrick-bermingham {{DEFAULTSORT:Bermingham, Paddy 1886 births 1959 deaths Irish male discus throwers Olympic athletes of Ireland Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Northern Ireland Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Dublin Metropolitan Police officers Sportspeople from County Clare