Ian Fitzpatrick is an Irish rugby union player. In rugby sevens, he plays as a forward for the

Ireland national rugby sevens team The Ireland national rugby sevens team competed in several international rugby sevens competitions. The team was governed by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU). In May 2025 the IRFU dismantled the programme at the end of the 2024/25 season, i ...

. Fitzpatrick began playing rugby sevens in 2015 while with Lansdowne. He was a member of the Irish sevens team that finished second in the 2017 Sevens Grand Prix Series, qualifying for the

2018 Hong Kong Sevens The 2018 Hong Kong Sevens was the 43rd edition of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, and the seventh tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series. The performance from this tournament determined the first fourteen seedings of the 2018 Ru ...

and the

2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens The 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the seventh edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens. Organized by World Rugby, it was held at AT&T Park, now known as Oracle Park, in San Francisco, United States. A total of 84 matches were played over three d ...

. Fitzpatrick played for Ireland at the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier, where Ireland fell to Japan 12–7 in the semifinals and failed in their quest to qualify for the 2018–19 World Series. In rugby fifteens, Fitzpatrick plays as a fullback with

Leinster Rugby Leinster Rugby () is one of the four professional provincial club rugby union teams from the island of Ireland. They compete in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup. The team represents the Leinster Branch, one of t ...

on their academy team. In his youth, he was a member of the Leinster under 20 team. He was a member of the Ireland squad that played in the

2014 IRB Junior World Championship The 2014 IRB Junior World Championship was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams. The event was organised in Auckland, New Zealand by rugby's governing body, World Rugby, then known as the Internatio ...

. Fitzpatrick suffered a setback in summer 2016 when he injured his knee and had to undergo surgery.Leo Cullen stays patient as Leinster's strength in depth gets early test, ''Irish Times'', 30 August 2016.

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Irish rugby union players Leinster Rugby players Ireland international rugby sevens players Lansdowne Football Club players Living people Rugby union players from County Meath Olympic rugby sevens players for Ireland Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 1994 births {{Ireland-rugbyunion-bio-stub