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Place of Birth: Templenoe, Ireland
About Pat Spillane
- Patrick Gerard Spillane (born 1 December 1955), better known as Pat Spillane, is an Irish Gaelic football pundit and former player.
- His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned seventeen years from 1974 to 1991.
- Spillane is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Born in Templenoe, County Kerry, Spillane was born into a strong Gaelic football family.
- His father, Tom, and his uncle, Jerome, both played with Kerry and won All-Ireland medals in the junior grade.
- His maternal uncles, Jackie, Dinny, Mickey, and Teddy Lyne, all won All-Ireland medals at various grades with Kerry throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Spillane played competitive Gaelic football as a boarder at St Brendan's College.
- Here he won back-to-back Corn Uà Mhuirà medals, however, an All-Ireland medal remained elusive.
- Spillane first appeared for the Templenoe club at underage levels, before winning a county novice championship medal in 1973.
- With the amalgamated Kenmare District team he won two county senior championship medals in 1974 and 1987.
- While studying at Thomond College Spillane won an All-Ireland medal in the club championship in 1978.
- He also won one Munster medal and a county senior championship medal in Limerick. Spillane made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he was picked on the Kerry minor team.
- He enjoyed two championship seasons with the minor team, however, he was a Munster runner-up on both occasions.
- Spillane subsequently joined the Kerry under-21 team, winning back-to-back All-Ireland medal in 1975 and 1976.
- By this stage he had also joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1973–74 league.
- Over the course of the next seventeen years, Spillane won eight All-Ireland medals, beginning with a lone triumph in 1975, a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 1978 to 1981 and three championships in-a-row from 1984 to 1986.
- He also won twelve Munster medals, two National Football League medals and was named Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1986.
- He played his last game for Kerry in August 1991.
- Spillane was joined on the Kerry team by his two brothers, Mick and Tom, and together won a total of 19 All-Ireland medals – a record for a set of brothers.After being chosen on the Munster inter-provincial team for the first time in 1976, Spillane was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen for the following six years.
- During that time he won four Railway Cup medals. In retirement from playing Spillane combined his teaching career with a new position as a sports broadcaster.
- His media career began with RTÉ in 1992, where he started as a co-commentator before progressing to the role of studio analyst with the flagship programme The Sunday Game.
- He also enjoyed a four-year tenure as host of the evening highlights edition of the programme.
- Spillane also writes a weekly column for the Sunday World. Even during his playing days Spillane came to be recognised as one of the greatest players of all time.
- After fighting his way back from a potentially career-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury, he was named in the right wing-forward position on the Football Team of the Century in 1984.
- Spillane was one of only two players from the modern era to be named on that team.
- He switched to the left-wing forward position when he was named on the Football Team of the Millennium in 1999.
- Spillane's collection of nine All-Stars is a record for a Gaelic footballer, while his tally of eight All-Ireland medals is also a record which he shares with fellow Kerry players Páidà Ó Sé, Mikey Sheehy, Denis "Ógie" Moran and Ger Power.
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