Éamonn Fitzmaurice

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 for Kerry, the first Lixnaw man (a predominantly hurling area) to play senior championship for the county. He currently manages the Kerry senior team.^[1] A secondary school teacher in Dingle, he is married to Tina. His great-grandfather Maurice Fitzmaurice was part of the Kerry hurling team that won the 1891 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

At club level, Fitzmaurice won the 2005 All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship with Finuge^[2] and the 2007 Kerry Senior Football Championship with Feale Rangers. 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. Fitzmaurice 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. He won County Senior Hurling Championships with Lixnaw in 1999, 2005 and 2007.

Fitzmaurice played 50 championship games for Kerry and won the 2000, 2004 and 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, having made his championship debut against Cork in 1998. The majority of his Kerry games were at centre half back where he played every game from 2000 to 2005 at number 6. He won a minor and 2 Under 21 All-Ireland medals and 6 Munster Championship medals. He retired from inter-county football early in 2007 at the young age of 29.

On retiring he wrote columns for the Irish Examiner. 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. O'Connor went on record as saying that Fitzmaurice would be a future Kerry manager. He left after Kerry were surprisingly beaten by Down in the 2010 All-Ireland quarter-final. He became the new Kerry U-21 manager in May 2011. He succeeded Jack O'Connor as manager of the Kerry senior team on a three-year contract in August 2012.^[5]^[6]^[7] He guided Kerry to a Munster title and an All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Dublin.

On 21 September 2014, Fitzmaurice managed Kerry to win their 37th All-Ireland title after a 2-9 to 0-12 win against Donegal.^[8]^[9]

References

↑ "Eamonn Fitz the bill for O'Connor". Irish Independent. 26 November 2012.
↑ http://archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/2005/03/31/story16734.asp
↑ "It's Captain Galvin for Kerry as Feale land title". Irish Independent. 25 November 2012.
↑ 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". RTÉ 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.
↑ "Eamonn Fitzmaurice hails 'exciting time' ahead for champions with Tommy Walsh to return from Oz". Irish Independent. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
↑ "Quiet man with common touch draws strength from adversity". Irish Independent. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.

Kerry senior football team – current panel

1 B. Kealy

2 P. Murphy
3 M. Griffin
4 S. Enright

5 J. Lyne
6 P. Crowley
7 K. Young

8 A. Maher
9 D. Moran

10 A. Fitzgerald
11 B. Sheehan
12 J. Buckley

Subs used: 27 P. Geaney for Keane; 21 Darran O'Sullivan for Fitzgerald; 18 T. Walsh for O'Brien; 20 M. Ó Sé for Crowley; 26 C. Cooper for Sheehan; 19 F. Fitzgerald for Young

Subs not used: 16 B. Kelly; 17 P. Kilkenny; 22 K. O'Leary; 23 Paudge O'Connor; 24 Philip O'Connor; 25 P. Galvin

Manager: É. Fitzmaurice

Selectors: M. Sheehy; D. Murphy

Trainer: C. O'Neill

Kerry Football Squads

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

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 (replay): M. Fitzgerald; T. Griffin

Subs used (drawn game): M. Fitzgerald; D. O'Dwyer

Subs not used: P. O'Leary; 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

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

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 for Crowley M. Ó Sé for Galvin Manager J. O'Connor

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 (played in semi-final) D. Ó Sé Manager J. O'Connor

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

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 Darran O'Sullivan for O'Connor E. Brosnan for Fitzmaurice T. Griffin for O'Mahony M. F. Russell for Cooper Manager J. O'Connor

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

Subs used

17 E. Brosnan for T. Ó Sé
18 Darran O'Sullivan for S. O'Sullivan
19 É. Fitzmaurice for T. Griffin
20 B. Sheehan for M. F. Russell
22 B. Guiney for A. O'Mahony

Manager: J. O'Connor

Kerry – 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (37th title)

Subs used: 18 M. Geaney for O'Brien; 21 B. J. Keane for P. Geaney; 17 S. Enright for Fitzgerald; 19 Declan O'Sullivan for Walsh; 20 B. Sheehan for Moran; 23 K. O'Leary for Donaghy

Subs not used: 16 B. Kealy; 22 Darran O'Sullivan; 24 J. Lyne; 25 M. Griffin; 26 P. Kilkenny; 27 A. Fitzgerald; 28 C. Cooper; 29 J. Sherwood; 30 D. Casey; 31 P. O'Donoghue; 32 S. O'Callaghan; 33 M. Mangan; 34 F. MacNamara
Manager: É. Fitzmaurice

Selectors: M. Sheehy; D. Murphy
Trainer: C. O'Neill

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

Kerry senior football team – managers

J. Brosnan (1965–68) 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)