Pat Holmes (Gaelic footballer)

Irish Gaelic footballer and manager

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Honours

Player

Connacht Senior Football Championship (1): 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997
Connacht Under-21 Football Championship (1): 1986
Connacht club Senior Football Championship (with Castlebar Mitchels): 1993
North Mayo Junior Championship (with Moygownagh): 1986

Manager

Mayo

National Football League Division 1 : 2001
Connacht Senior Football Championship (1): 2015
All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2006

References

Heneghan, Conor (2014). "Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes set to take charge of the Mayo footballers". JOE.ie. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
"'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.
"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.
"Revealed: The letter to the county board that tore Mayo apart". Irish Independent. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
"Mayo players threatened to strike in 2015 if Holmes and Connelly were not removed". The 42. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.

Sporting positions
Preceded byJames Horan	Mayo Senior Football Joint-Manager 2014–2015	Succeeded byStephen Rochford

Mayo squads

Mayo – 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

Played in drawn game: 13 D. Nestor

Subs used in drawn game: 22 P. J. Loftus for Nestor; 21 A. Finnerty for Casey; 20 K. O'Neill for Horan

Subs used in replay: 22 P. J. Loftus for Dempsey; 18 P. Fallon for Flanagan; 21 T. Reilly for Finnerty

Subs not used in replay: 16 B. Heffernan; 17 P. Butler; 19 G. Ruane; 20 D. Nestor; 23 M. Gardiner; 24 A. McGarry

Manager: J. Maughan
Selectors: P. Ford; T. O'Malley

Mayo – 1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

Subs used: J. Horan for Flanagan; D. Byrne for Sheridan; PJ Loftus for Nestor

Manager: J. Maughan

v t e 1996 All Star Gaelic Football Team
1 F. McConnell 2 K. Mortimer 3 D. Fay 4 M. O'Connell 5 P. Holmes 6 J. Nallen 7 P. Curran 8 J. McDermott 9 L. McHale 10 T. Giles 11 T. Dowd 12 J. Horan 13 J. Brolly 14 P. Canavan 15 M. Fitzgerald

v t e Mayo football team – managers
J. Carey (1977–80) L. O'Neill (1983–87) J. O'Mahony (1987–91) B. McDonald (1991–92) J. O'Shea (1992–94) A. Egan (1994–95) J. Maughan (1995–99) P. Holmes (1999–2002) J. Maughan (2002–05) M. Moran (2005–06) J. O'Mahony (2006–10) J. Horan (2010–14) N. Connelly and P. Holmes (2014–15) S. Rochford (2015–18) J. Horan (2018–22) K. McStay (2022–) Under-20/1s incl. N. Heffernan: until 2016 • M. Solan: 2016–2020 • M. Sheridan: 2021–

Mayo football team – managers

J. Carey (1977–80)
L. O'Neill (1983–87)
J. O'Mahony (1987–91)
B. McDonald (1991–92)
J. O'Shea (1992–94)
A. Egan (1994–95)
J. Maughan (1995–99)
P. Holmes (1999–2002)
J. Maughan (2002–05)
M. Moran (2005–06)
J. O'Mahony (2006–10)
J. Horan (2010–14)
N. Connelly and P. Holmes (2014–15)
S. Rochford (2015–18)
J. Horan (2018–22)
K. McStay (2022–)

Under-20/1s incl. N. Heffernan: until 2016 • M. Solan: 2016–2020 • M. Sheridan: 2021–

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