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Nickname | Fitzy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 April 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Primary school teacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Hurling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| * club appearances and scores correct as of 21:33,8 June 2025. **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of match played 20 July 2025. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Darragh Fitzgibbon (born 1 April 1997) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for club side Charleville,divisional side Avondhu,university side University College Cork and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team.
Fitzgibbon first came to prominence as a hurler with C.B.S. Charleville. Having played hurling in every grade during his time at the school,he usually lined out in the forwards on the senior team in the Harty Cup. [1]
On 23 February 2019,Fitzgibbon lined out at left corner-forward for University College Cork when they faced Mary Immaculate College in the Fitzgibbon Cup final. He scored a point from play in the 2-21 to 0-13 victory. [2]
Fitzgibbon played in a second successive Fitzgibbon Cup final on 12 February 2020. Lining out at midfield,he ended the game with a second successive winners' medal after scoring two points from play in the 0-18 to 2-11 defeat of the Institute of Technology,Carlow. [3]
Fitzgibbon joined the Charleville club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels. On 7 June 2014,he made his adult debut in a 0-20 to 0-14 defeat of Milford in the intermediate championship. Charleville subsequently reached the final,however,they lost to Fermoy by a single point. [4] Charleville qualified for a second successive final in 2015,with Fitzgibbon scoring 1-09 and claiming a winners' medal in a 5-24 to 1-10 defeat of Dripsey. [5]
After three years in the Premier Intermediate Championship,Charleville qualified for the 2018 final against Courcey Rovers. After an initial draw,Fitzgibbon collected a winners' medal in this grade after a 0-15 to 0-14 win in the replay. [6]
Fitzgibbon first played for Cork at minor level in 2015,however,his sole season in the grade ended without success with a defeat by Limerick. [7] On 23 June 2016,Fitzgibbon made his first appearance for the Cork under-21 hurling team in a seven-point defeat by Limerick. [8] He also played in Cork's unsuccessful championship campaign in 2017. On 4 July 2018,Fitzgibbon won a Munster medal after leaving the field injured in Cork's 2-23 to 1-13 defeat of Tipperary in the final. [9] On 26 August 2018,he scored a point in Cork's 3-13 to 1-16 All-Ireland final defeat by Tipperary in what was his last game in the grade. [10] Fitzgibbon was later nominated for the Team of the Year. [11]
Fitzgibbon made his senior debut for Cork on 11 February 2017 in a National League defeat of Clare,before making his first championship start later that season in a Munster Championship quarter-final against Tipperary. [12] [13] Fitzgibbon was a regular starter for Cork's subsequent championship games. On 9 July 2017,he won his first Munster medal following a 1-25 to 1-20 defeat of Clare in the final. [14]
On 1 July 2018,Fitzgibbon won a second successive Munster medal following a 2-24 to 3-19 defeat of Clare in the final. [15] At the end of the championship he was named on The Sunday Game Team of the Year. [16] Fitzgibbon ended the season by winning an All-Star Award while he was also a Young Hurler of the Year nominee. [17] [18]
Fitzgibbon won his second All Star at the end of the 2024 season. [19]
| Team | Year | Cork IHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Charleville | 2014 | 2 | 0-03 | — | — | 2 | 0-03 | ||
| 2015 | 4 | 1-24 | — | — | 4 | 1-24 | |||
| Total | 6 | 1-27 | — | — | 6 | 1-27 | |||
| Year | Cork PIHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| 2016 | 3 | 1-15 | — | — | 3 | 1-15 | |||
| 2017 | 4 | 0-24 | — | — | 4 | 0-24 | |||
| 2018 | 6 | 2-27 | 2 | 0-15 | 2 | 0-16 | 10 | 2-58 | |
| Total | 13 | 3-66 | 2 | 0-15 | 2 | 0-16 | 17 | 3-97 | |
| Year | Cork SHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| 2019 | 2 | 0-30 | — | — | 2 | 0-30 | |||
| Total | 2 | 0-30 | — | — | 2 | 0-30 | |||
| Year | Cork SAHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| 2020 | 5 | 2-51 | — | — | 5 | 2-51 | |||
| Total | 5 | 2-51 | — | — | 5 | 2-51 | |||
| Year | Cork PSHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| 2021 | 4 | 2-35 | — | — | 4 | 2-35 | |||
| 2022 | 4 | 0-25 | — | — | 4 | 0-25 | |||
| 2023 | 1 | 0-05 | — | — | 1 | 0-05 | |||
| 2024 | 4 | 0-24 | — | — | 4 | 0-24 | |||
| 2025 | 3 | 0-29 | — | — | 3 | 0-29 | |||
| Total | 16 | 2-118 | — | — | 16 | 2-118 | |||
| Career total | 42 | 8-292 | 2 | 0-15 | 2 | 0-16 | 46 | 8-323 | |
| Team | Year | Cork SHC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | ||
| Avondhu | 2016 | 1 | 0-00 |
| University College Cork | 2017 | 5 | 0-16 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1-09 | |
| Career total | 8 | 1-25 | |
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Cork | 2017 | Division 1A | 4 | 0-06 | 3 | 0-02 | 1 | 0-01 | 8 | 0-09 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0-05 | 5 | 0-10 | 1 | 0-04 | 10 | 0-19 | ||
| 2019 | 1 | 0-00 | 4 | 0-06 | 2 | 0-04 | 7 | 0-10 | ||
| 2020 | 4 | 0-05 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 5 | 0-05 | ||
| 2021 | 4 | 0-10 | 1 | 0-03 | 4 | 0-03 | 9 | 0-16 | ||
| 2022 | 6 | 2-13 | 4 | 2-03 | 2 | 1-06 | 12 | 5-22 | ||
| 2023 | 0 | 0-00 | 4 | 1-11 | — | 4 | 1-11 | |||
| 2024 | 2 | 1-01 | 4 | 0-14 | 4 | 0-10 | 10 | 1-25 | ||
| 2025 | 7 | 2-31 | 5 | 0-11 | 2 | 0-05 | 14 | 2-47 | ||
| 2026 | 3 | 0-13 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-13 | ||
| Career total | 35 | 5-84 | 30 | 3-60 | 17 | 1-33 | 82 | 9-177 | ||