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{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer, football manager, and hurler}}
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{{Infobox GAA player
| code           = Football
| sport          = Gaelic football
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| name           = Pat O' Driscoll
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| fullname       = Pat O' Driscoll
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| county         = Kerry
| province       = Munster
| club           = [[Ardfert GAA|Ardfert]]
[[St Brendan's Hurling Club|St Brendan's]]
| cposition      = Full Forward
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| clcounty       = 1
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| clallireland   = 0
| counties       = [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]]
| icposition     = Full Forward
| icyears        = 1992
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| icallireland   = 0
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| birth_place    = [[Ardfert]], [[County Kerry]], [[Ireland]]
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'''Pat O'Driscoll''' is a [[Gaelic football]] [[Manager (Gaelic games)|manager]] and former player, who also played hurling, from [[County Kerry]].
He played Minor football with [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] in 1990 winning a Munster Championship and later played in the All Ireland final but lost out to [[Meath GAA|Meath]]. He then joined the Under 21 in 1993 side where he again won a Munster Championship and again made it to the All Ireland final but again was on the losing side to [[Meath GAA|Meath]].
==Schools==
He also had a very successful schools career with Tralee Community College. He won County & Munster Vocational Schools titles in 1989 and 1991 and an [[All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship]] in 1991 as captain. He also captained the school's hurling team to a Munster Vocational Schools title in 1991.
At club level he played football with [[Ardfert GAA|Ardfert]] and hurling with [[St Brendan's Hurling Club|St Brendan's]]. He played in the [[Kerry Senior Hurling Championship]] final in 1992 but was on the losing side as [[Ballyheigue GAA|Ballyheigue]] took the title. He also played in that year's County Football final with the St Brendan's District Team but again lost out to Mid Kerry.
While still playing he took over the [[Ardfert GAA|Ardfert]] football team and had huge success. He led the team to the 2005 County Junior title with a win over Cordal in the final they then went on to beat [[Erin's Own GAA (Cork)|Erin's Own]] from [[Cork (city)|Cork]] in the Munster final, they then made it to [[Croke Park]] for the All Ireland final where they faced another well known club in [[Galway]] side Loughrea whom they beat to take the title. The following year [[Ardfert GAA|Ardfert]] moved up to the Intermediate grade where the success went on for O'Driscoll and his side as they beat Annascaul to take the county title and then added the Munster title before once again finding themselves in [[Croke Park]] for the All Ireland final where they beat Eoghan Rua from [[Derry]]. During this time [[Ardfert GAA|Ardfert]] also moved up from Div 5 to Div 1 in the County League.
Following his club success O'Driscoll was named manager of the [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] minor football team in 2010. But after two years in charge [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] failed to win a Munster Championship and O'Driscoll stepped down after the 2011 season.
==References==
* http://www.terracetalk.com/kerry-football/player/204/Pat-Driscoll
* https://web.archive.org/web/20190328115822/http://munster.gaa.ie/history/u21f_teams/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100210054810/http://munster.gaa.ie/history/mf_teams/
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