Pat Holmes is an Irish former Gaelic football manager and player.
Work commitments caused him to join Castlebar for four years in the early ‘90s where he won Mayo and Connacht club championship medals in 1993.
[citation needed] He was captain in 1994 when Mayo lost to Leitrim in the Connacht Final and is a former pupil of St Jarlath's College in Tuam, with whom he won an All-Ireland medal in 1984.
[citation needed] He played in defence for the senior Mayo county team from 1988 to 1999 before taking over as manager from 2000 to 2002.
[1] Holmes along with Noel Connelly left as joint managers of the Mayo team in 2015 after one year in charge due to a player revolt and the threat of a strike by the team if they remained in charge.