Pat McEnaney

Pat McEnaney (born 1960/1961/1962/1963)

McEnaney also refereed several International Rules Series tests, as well as games in countries such as France, Luxembourg and the United States.

Early and personal life McEnaney attended Referagh School.

Playing career As a player, McEnaney won a Monaghan Junior Football Championship and a Monaghan Intermediate Football Championship with Corduff in 1998. McEnaney still plays at Junior "B" level for Corduff. He described his "first priority" as "probably playing club football"; refereeing at inter-county level followed on from this.

Refereeing career McEnaney first took up refereeing when he was 21 years of age, after damaging his left knee while playing association football for Carrick Rovers This was due to a mass brawl between both teams on the pitch. McEnaney sought to punish those he deemed the worst offenders. He decided he would send off Mayo's Liam McHale and Meath's John McDermott. "When it all settled down my gut instinct was to send off McDermott with McHale. I had my mind made up on that", McEnaney later said. Then he consulted with umpire Francie McMahon, who had witnessed something dreadful. "Pat," he said. "You're going to have to send off Colm Coyle. He's after dropping about six of them".

He refereed games outside Ireland, including in Paris, Luxembourg, New York, San Francisco and Australia. McEnaney criticised Armagh following this game: "Armagh needs to lose their tag, and that image they have. You can be unfortunate and you can be unlucky. But it needs to stop."