Éamonn Fitzmaurice

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Éamonn Fitzmaurice
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Center Half Back
Born	Lixnaw, County Kerry
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Occupation	Secondary school teacher
Club(s)
Years	Club
1990s-present	Finuge Lixnaw
Club Titles
Kerry titles	1
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1998-2006	Kerry	50(0-07)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	6
All Irelands	3
NFL	2

Éamonn Fitzmaurice is a former inter-county Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland. He is the first Lixnaw man ( a predominantly hurling area) to play senior championship for Kerry. He is the current manager of the Kerry Senior team since August 2012.^[1] He is a secondary school teacher in Dingle, County Kerry, and is married to Tina.

Career

At club level, Fitzmaurice won the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship with Finuge GAA in 2005^[2] and the Kerry Senior Football Championship with Feale Rangers in 2007. He captained Feale Rangers to the championship and was lauded for his leadership in the aftermath of that victory.^[3] He was awarded the man of the match award for his display against four in a row chasing South Kerry. He has the unique achievement of winning a Cork County Championship and Munster Club Championship with UCC in 1999. He has played in 11 County championship finals between football and hurling and Kerry and Cork. With Kerry, he was an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner. He won three All Ireland senior medals in 2000, 2004 and 2006. He made his championship debut in 1998 against Cork. He played 50 championship games for Kerry. The majority of these were at centre half back where he played every game from 2000 to 2005 at number 6. He also won a minor and 2 Under 21 All Ireland medals and 6 Munster Championship medals. Fitzmaurice retired from inter-county football early in 2007 at the young age of 29. He won County Senior Hurling Championships with Lixnaw in 1999, 2005 and 2007. His great-grandfather Maurice Fitzmaurice was part of the Kerry hurling team that won the 1891 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Coaching

On retiring he became a successful columnist with the Irish Examiner newspaper. He was named as a selector by incoming manager Jack O'Connor after the 2008 season.^[4] Kerry won the All Ireland in 2009 under the management of O Connor with Fitzmaurice as a selector. Since that victory O Connor has gone on record as saying that Fitzmaurice will be a future Kerry manager. He departed the scene after Kerry were surprisingly beaten by Down in the All Ireland quarter final of 2010. In May 2011 he was confirmed as the new Kerry U-21 manager. He is thought to have a big challenge on his hands as Kerry have won 1 All Ireland U-21 in 14 years and have not won a minor All Ireland since 1994.

In August 2012, he was named as the new manager of the Kerry Senior football team for three years taking over from Jack O'Connor.^[5]^[6]^[7]

In his first year he guided Kerry to win the Munster title and get to the All Ireland semi-final where they lost to Dublin.

References

↑ http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/eamonn-fitz-the-bill-for-oconnor-1532731.html
↑ http://archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/2005/03/31/story16734.asp
↑ http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/its-captain-galvin-for-kerry-as-feale-land-title-1217132.html
↑ http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=sport-qqqm=sport-qqqa=sport-qqqid=76990-qqqx=1.asp
↑ "Fitzmaurice takes Kerry Senior Football role". Irish Examiner. 27 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
↑ "Newly appointed Kerry senior football manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice understands scale of new role". RTE Sport. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
↑ "Eamon Fitzmaurice is named as new Kerry football manager". BBC Sport. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

Kerry Football Squads

v t e Kerry – 1996 All-Ireland Under 21 Football Champions (8th title)

1 D. Murphy 2 K. O'Driscoll 3 B. McCarthy 4 M. O'Shea 5 K. Burns 6 C. Drummond 7 É. Fitzmaurice 8 D. Ó Sé 9 W. Kirby 10 D. O'Dwyer 11 L. Hassett (c) 12 D. Ó Cinnéide 13 J O'Shea 14 B. Clarke 15 M. F. Russell Subs J. Brennan Ruairi O'Rahilly J. Ferriter Manager P. Ó Sé

v t e Kerry – 1998 All-Ireland Under 21 Football Champions (9th title)

1 D. Moloney 2 M. McCarthy 3 T. O'Sullivan 4 K. Leen 5 J. Sheehan 6 T. Ó Sé 7 M. Beckett 8 T. Griffin 9 É. Fitzmaurice 10 A. Mac Gearailt 11 P. O'Sullivan 12 L. Brosnan 13 M. F. Russell 14 N. Kennelly 15 B. Scanlon (c) Subs used I. Twiss M. Burke S. Hegarty Manager J. O'Connor

Kerry – 2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (32nd title)

Subs used: M. Fitzgerald; T. Griffin

Subs not used: P. O'Leary; D. O'Dwyer; K. Burns; E. Galvin; M. Lyons; K. Dillon; S. O'Sullivan

Manager: P. Ó Sé

Selectors: J. O'Keeffe; J. O'Connor; E. O'Sullivan; E. Walsh

v t e Kerry – 2002 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 D. O'Keeffe 2 M. Ó Sé 3 S. Moynihan 4 M. McCarthy 5 T. Ó Sé 6 É. Fitzmaurice 7 J. Sheehan 8 D. Ó Sé (c) 9 D. Daly 10 S. O'Sullivan 11 E. Brosnan 12 L. Hassett 13 M. F. Russel 14 D. Ó Cinnéide 15 C. Cooper Subs A. Mac Gearailt T. O'Sullivan B. O'Shea J. Crowley Manager P. Ó Sé

v t e Kerry – 2004 National Football League Champions (17th title)

1 D. Murphy 2 T. O'Sullivan 3 M. McCarthy 4 A. O'Mahony 5 T. Ó Sé (c) 6 É. Fitzmaurice 7 S. Moynihan 8 W. Kirby 9 E. Brosnan 10 L. Hassett 11 D. O'Sullivan 12 Paul Galvin 13 C. Cooper 14 J. Crowley 15 M. F. Russell Subs used D. Ó Cinnéide M. Ó Sé Manager J. O'Connor

v t e Kerry – 2004 All Ireland Senior Football Champions (33rd title)

1 D. Murphy 2 A. O'Mahony 3 M. McCarthy 4 T. O'Sullivan 5 M. Ó Sé 6 É. Fitzmaurice 7 T. Ó Sé 8 W. Kirby 9 E. Brosnan 10 L. Hassett 11 D. O'Sullivan 12 Paul Galvin 13 C. Cooper 14 D. Ó Cinnéide (c) 15 J. Crowley Subs used S. Moynihan M. F. Russell R. O'Connor P. Kelly B. Guiney Injured D. Ó Sé Manager J. O'Connor

v t e Kerry – 2005 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 D. Murphy 2 M. McCarthy 3 A. O'Mahony 4 T. O'Sullivan 5 T. Ó Sé 6 M. Ó Sé 7 S. Moynihan 8 D. Ó Sé 9 W. Kirby 10 L. Hassett 11 Declan O'Sullivan (c) 12 Paul Galvin 13 C. Cooper 14 E. Brosnan 15 D. Ó Cinnéide Subs M. F. Russell Darran O'Sullivan É. Fitzmaurice B. Sheehan Manager J. O'Connor

v t e Kerry – 2006 National Football League Champions (18th title)

1 D. Murphy 2 A. O'Mahony 3 M. Ó Sé 4 T. O'Sullivan 5 S. Moynihan 6 T. Ó Sé 7 M. Lyons 8 D. Ó Sé 9 K. Donaghy 10 P. Galvin 11 É. Fitzmaurice 12 B. Sheehan 13 C. Cooper 14 Declan O'Sullivan (c) 15 R. O'Connor Subs used M. F. Russell Darran O'Sullivan E. Brosnan T. Griffin Manager J. O'Connor

Kerry – 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (34th title)

Subs used: E. Brosnan for T. Ó Sé; Darran O'Sullivan for S. O'Sullivan; É. Fitzmaurice for T. Griffin; B. Sheehan for M. F. Russell; B. Guiney for A. O'Mahony

Manager: J. O'Connor

v t e Lixnaw County Senior Hurling Champions 2005

1 E. Thornton 2 M. Quilter 3 M. Quilter 4 M. McCarthy 5 P. Corridan 6 P. Lyon 7 T McKenna 8 M Corridan 9 É. Fitzmaurice 10 J. Griffin 11 P. Galvin 12 E Galvin 13 F Fitzmaurice 14 J Flaherty 15 P O'Connell Subs C Fitzmaurice

v t e Kerry senior football team – managers

J. Lyne (1968–71) J. Keohane (1971–72) J. Culloty (1972–75) M. O'Dwyer (1975–89) M. O'Sullivan (1989–92) D. Moran (1992–95) P. Ó Sé (1995–03) J. O'Connor (2003–06) P. O'Shea (2006–08) J. O'Connor (2008–12) É. Fitzmaurice (2012–present)

Persondata
Name	Eamonn Fitzmaurice
Alternative names
Short description	Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
Date of birth
Place of birth	Lixnaw
Date of death
Place of death

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