Pat Holmes (Gaelic footballer)

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Pat Holmes is an Irish former Gaelic football manager and player.

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He won a North Mayo Junior Championship in 1986 with Moygownagh. Work commitments caused him to join Castlebar for four years in the early ‘90s where he won Mayo and Connacht club championship medals in 1993.[ citation needed ]

He was very much involved in Mayo's All-Ireland runs in 1996 and 1997 and is the holder of six Connacht Senior Medals, a Connacht U21 Medal and a Hogan Cup Medal.[ citation needed ]

He was captain in 1994 when Mayo lost to Leitrim in the Connacht Final and is a former pupil of St Jarlath's College in Tuam, with whom he won an All-Ireland medal in 1984. He also earned an All Star in 1996.[ citation needed ]

Career

He played in defence for the senior Mayo county team from 1988 to 1999 before taking over as manager from 2000 to 2002. He returned again to the Mayo management team, serving as joint-manager of the team from 2014 until 2015 with Noel Connelly. [1]

Holmes along with Noel Connelly left as joint managers of the Mayo team in 2015 after one year in charge due to a player revolt and the threat of a strike by the team if they remained in charge. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Player

Manager

Mayo

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References

  1. ↑ Heneghan, Conor (2014). "Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes set to take charge of the Mayo footballers". JOE.ie . Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "'If some egos are not checked, Mayo won't win an All-Ireland': Ousted joint managers break silence on player revolt". Irish Independent. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Martin Breheny: The reality is that Holmes and Connelly have done Mayo football a huge service". Irish Independent. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Revealed: The letter to the county board that tore Mayo apart". Irish Independent. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Mayo players threatened to strike in 2015 if Holmes and Connelly were not removed". The 42. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
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