Pat Fanning (25 August 1918 – 14 March 2010)[1] was an Irish hurler who played for his local club Mount Sion and at senior level for the Waterford county team in the 1940s and 1950s.
[3] His election in succession of fellow Munster man Seamus Ryan marked the second time in history a province had consecutive presidents of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Opening Croke Park will double and treble the income of these other sports and give them more ammunition to intrude on our schools.
[5] Tributes came from Christy Cooney, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association at the time of Fanning's death.
[5] Fanning was honoured with the Appreciation Award at the Park Hotel in Dungarvan, County Waterford on 29 January 2005.