Doyle, Pat
April 08, 2009
The Late Pat Doyle
The horse has left us! Great hurler, footballer and all round sportsman Pat Doyle, known to one and all as 'Horse' passed away peacefully on Thursday after a long illness, bravely born.
Pat will be remembered for many reasons, but most of all for the part he played in Carnew's greatest ever year - 1973. That year the club swept all before them on the playing fields of Wicklow and finished up winning the big double, Senior Hurling and Senior Football. At 18 years of age Pat was the youngest player on that team.
He had won Leinster and All Ireland medals with Carlow Vocational Schools team while completing his studies in Tullow Community School that year and was captain of the team up to the day of the All Ireland final.
He played in all grades of hurling and football for Wicklow, up to and including Senior.
But at county level he was far more prominent in Hurling. He later turned to golf and was very successful at that game as well.
He was a great club man, ran the annual Golf Classic and worked with the Juveniles. In fact the Carnew club was his life.
Former team mated from club and county and many he had played against thronged the Church in Carnew for his funeral.
The Carnew Emmets Club provided a fitting guard of honour, one of the biggest ever witnessed in the town. Fr Martin Casey, himself a great Hurling man officiated at the funeral.
Our sympathy to his wife Ailish, sons Pádraig, Ronan and Cormack, daughter Ciara and extended family.
May he rest in peace.
Courtesy of the Wicklow People
8/4/2009
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