Pat Corridan is a

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er from

Finuge Finuge () is a village near Listowel in County Kerry, Ireland. Finuge is a traditional Irish crossroads village with a shop, a pub, Teach Siamsa and a G.A.A. pitch. Sheehan's Thatched House located at Finuge Cross is regarded as one of the old ...

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, in Ireland. Corrdian plays football for the

Finuge GAA Finuge is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Finuge, County Kerry, Ireland. They currently compete in the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship. They also form part of the Feale Rangers divisional team that play in the Kerry Senior Foot ...

club, Feale Rangers divisional side and

Kerry senior football team The Kerry county football team represents Kerry in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Kerry GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland ...

Club career

In 2004, Corridan was a member of the Finuge team which won the

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and went on to win the Munster Championship. The team then reached the

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship is a GAA competition involving four Junior Gaelic football inter-county teams. Prior to a change in competition structure in 2021, the competition was previously for all Junior Gaelic football inte ...

final in March 2005 and defeated Stewartstown Harps by 11 points to take the title, with Corridan at corner-back. In 2007, Corridan was full-back on the Feale Rangers team which won the

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for the first time since 1980.

Career with Kerry

Corridan impressed at centre-back with the Kerry junior team in the 2008

. He won a

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medal with Kerry that year. The Finuge man was also called into the Kerry senior panel and was a member of the squad which reached the 2008

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) ( ga, Craobh Shinsir Peile na hÉireann) is the premier competition in Gaelic football. An annual tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), it is contested by the county ...

final. Corridan has recently withdrawn from the 2009 Kerry Panel while his brother Maurice's career in the green and gold seems to be blossoming. As the 2009 season draws to a close and with Corridan being fiercely impressive with divisional outfit Feale Rangers, he is poised to re-join the Kerry Senior Football Panel for the 2010 campaign.

Hurling career

Pat Corridan is also a hurler with Lixnaw and the holder of two Kerry County Hurling Championships.

References

External links

Kerry GAA site

Feale Rangers site
* http://munster.gaa.ie/winning-teams/jfclub_teams/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Corridan, Pat Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dual players Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Lixnaw hurlers Fingue Gaelic footballers