About Pat Fanning
Lived 1918 – 2010 (aged 91). Pat Fanning was a hurler.
Pat Fanning (25 August 1918 – 14 March 2010) was an Irish hurler who played for his local club Mount Sion and at senior level for the Waterford county team in the 1940s and 1950s. He won the county championship on seven occasions. Fanning also served as the 23rd president of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 1970 until 1973, and was honorary life president of Waterford's county board. Fanning was the former president of the Gaelic Athletic Association to have survived the longest after serving.
Presidency Fanning's time as president of the Gaelic Athletic Association is remembered for the 1970 repealing of the ban on being associated with "foreign games". When Croke Park admitted "foreign games" in 2005, Fanning said: Fanning also oversaw the introduction of senior club All-Irelands during his presidency.
Other life Fanning was employed by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.
He died early morning on 14 March 2010 at the age of 91.
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Pat Fanning was born on 25 August 1918 in Waterford.
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Pat Fanning died on 14 March 2010.
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