Patrick Nolan (9 July 1937 – 29 August 2021[1]) was an Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Wexford senior team.
He quickly came to prominence at underage levels with the Oylegate-Glenbrien club, before later winning championship medals in the junior and intermediate grades.
Nolan arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Wexford minor team.
As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Nolan won four Railway Cup medals.
In the end, Nolan remained in the reserves that year as Wexford claimed the Leinster and All-Ireland titles following respective victories over Kilkenny and Cork.
A certain amount of over-confidence was obvious in the Tipperary camp, particularly in trainer Phil Purcell's comment that no player was capable of marking Jimmy Doyle.
When the crowd were finally moved off the pitch Tipperary continued playing with only twelve men, but Wexford won on a score line of 2–15 to 0–11.
Tipperary were waiting in Croke Park to test Wexford once again in the subsequent All-Ireland final on 2 September 1962.
This victory allowed Wexford to advance to an All-Ireland final against Tipperary, the outstanding team of the decade, on 1 September 1968.
In one of the great All-Ireland comebacks, Tony Doran got Wexford back on track with a goal six minutes after the interval.
Late goals from Michael "Babs" Keating and Seán McLoughlin for Tipperary failed to stem the tide as Wexford secured a remarkable 5–8 to 3–12 victory.