Pad Joe Whelahan
| Personal information | |||
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| Irish name | Pádraig Seosamh Ó Faoileacháin | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Born | Banagher, County Offaly | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| St. Rynagh's | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Offaly titles | 10 | ||
| Leinster titles | 2 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1965-1978 | Offaly | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Leinster titles | 0 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
| NHL | 1 (Division 2) | ||
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Patrick Joseph Whelahan (born 1945 in Banagher, County Offaly), better known as Pad Joe Whelahan, is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local club St. Rynagh's and with the Offaly senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s. Whelahan later served as manager of the Offaly and Limerick senior inter-county teams. He has also had a very successful career as manager of club sides Birr and Toomevara.
Pad Joe Whelahan was born in Banagher, County Offaly in 1945. He was educated locally and later settled in Birr where he runs his own pub. Whelahan's sons - Brian, Simon and Barry - would all taste success with Birr and with Offaly on the inter-county scene.
Whelahan played his club hurling with his local St. Rynagh's club in Banagher and enjoyed much success. He won his first of his ten senior county titles in 1965. Whelahan added further county honours to his collection in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976. 1970 saw St. Rynagh's covert their county title into a Leinster club title, however, the team was later defeated in the All-Ireland final by Roscrea. Whelahan captured a second Leinster club medal in 1972; however, Glen Rovers accounted for the Offaly side in the All-Ireland final once again.
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