Every manager’s perfect Fitz

Gerry Fitzpatrick has been one of Ireland’s leading, if unsung, sports operators for over four decades. From hoops to hurling, from training Henry and Mullane to watching Shaq in the flesh, he’s seen a lot, if not it all. Now, he’s playing his part in the Wexford hurling revival.

You rarely see him in the limelight but he’s a big reason why others are.

Ten years on from Tom Semple’s field in Thurles been taken over by an ocean of blue and white triggered by the Waterford hurlers winning probably the best and most storied Munster final ever, Gerry Fitzpatrick was last week again partly responsible for another human tsunami engulfing a hurling pitch.