Paul Kerrigan (born 16 December 1986) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Cork Premier Championship club Nemo Rangers.
A member of the Cork senior football team for 13 seasons from 2008 until 2020, he won seven major trophies in his inter-county career, including the All-Ireland Championship in 2010.
Kerrigan joined the Nemo Rangers senior team for the 2004 Cork County Championship but was an unused substitute for the year.
Kerrigan ended the championship with a winners' medal after coming on as a 25th-minute substitute for Joe Kavanagh in the 1-14 to 1-07 defeat of Muskerry in the final.
[7] Five-in-a-row proved beyond the team, however, Kerrigan claimed a fifth county winners' medal after top scoring with 1-03 in the 2-10 to 1-08 win over St. Finbarr's in the 2010 final.
[10] After an initial drawn game, he collected his sixth county winners' medal after leading Nemo to a 1-10 to 0-11 victory in the replay.
[15] On 17 March 2018, Kerrigan made his first All-Ireland final appearance in ten years when Nemo suffered a 2-10 to 0-10 defeat by Corofin.
He made his debut in a Munster quarter-final victory over Kerry and, after overcoming Clare, Kerrigan subsequently lined out in the provincial decider against Limerick.
A close game developed, however, Cork held on to win by 1–14 to 1–11 and Kerrigan collected his first Munster under-21 winners' medal.
Colm O'Neill and Daniel Goulding combined to score two goals and to help Cork to a narrow 2–10 to 0–15 victory.
Both sides met again in the All-Ireland semi-final, however, after a thrilling draw and a replay Kerry were the team that advanced to the championship decider.
The following year Kerrigan had established himself as a member of the Cork starting fifteen, a team that were earmarked as potential All-Ireland contenders.
[23] It was Kerrigan's second Munster title and gave Cork a save passage to an All-Ireland quarter-final meeting with Donegal.
The Kerry team stuck to their gameplan, helped in no small part by a Cork side that recorded fourteen wides.
After negotiating their way through a difficult series of games, Cork defeated Dublin to qualify for their third All-Ireland final in four years.