Aidan Fitzgerald (born 1980) is an Irish

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who played as a right wing-forward for the Tipperary senior team. Born in Fethard,

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, Fitzgerald first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of nineteen when he first linked up with the Tipperary under-21 team before later joining the intermediate

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

side. He joined the senior football panel during the 2000 championship. Fitzgerald subsequently became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won one

Tommy Murphy Cup The Tommy Murphy Cup was a Gaelic football competition, featuring senior county teams eliminated from the early stages of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and also Kilkenny county football team, Kilkenny when not fielding a team in t ...

medal. At club level Fitzgerald is a one-time

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medallist with Fethard. Fitzgerald retired from inter-county football following the conclusion of the 2009 championship.

Honours

Player

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Tipperary Senior Football Championship The Tipperary Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Gaelic football clubs in Tipperary. The winners of the Tipperary Championship qualify to represent their county in the Munster ...

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McGrath Cup The McGrath Cup is a Gaelic football competition played each January in Munster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of t ...

(1): 2003

References

1980 births Living people Fethard Gaelic footballers Fethard hurlers Tipperary inter-county Gaelic footballers Tipperary inter-county hurlers 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Tipperary-hurling-bio-stub