Pat Spillane

2022 - 9 - 3

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Inside Pat Spillane's family life including wife Rosarii and children as ... (Irish Mirror)

The legendary RTE pundit stepped away from Sunday Game duties after the 2022 campaign and will appear on Friday night's Late Late Show.

"Everything she did in her life was for us. Promoted Stories "We are together 32 years and I am a Mammy's boy but I have never changed from the day I met her to now." Pat’s mother later passed away in her mid-80s in 2012, but the pundit remains a self-confessed “Mammy’s boy” despite being married to his wife Rosarii for 33 years and having three children Cara, Shona and Pat. Tom died of a heart attack in his mid 40s, leaving Pat's mother to rear four children and run the family pub alone, while Pat stepped up to become the “father figure” of the family to his three younger siblings. What some fans may not know is Pat’s father Tom was not around to witness his success, as died suddenly from a heart attack when he was just eight years old.

Pat Spillane is 'going another direction' with his career after leaving ... (RSVP Live)

The legendary pundit of The Sunday Game opened up about his life since leaving the programme and how the internet trolls bothered him during his time on the ...

“In football, the worst thing you can hear is ‘he stayed on too long’. I was inclined to invite some of these fellas into my head and get the bother of me. “Have I come to the end of the road? “No, it’s ‘you should still be there’. We’re fed up with the same old faces’. “And I said ‘Billy you’re right’. “‘Pat, if someone was giving out about you, would you invite them to your house for dinner? I know there’s a silent majority out there that have supported me.” A peaceful mind, happy, contented and move onto the next chapter. “If you can do that in a job, that’s good. If someone was giving out about you, would you invite them into your head?’ Believe me I am just going another direction.”

RTE fans saying same thing as emotional Kerry legend Pat Spillane ... (The Irish Sun)

PAT SPILLANE let the emotions get the better of him after Kerry won the All-Ireland final.And the Kingdom legend opened up on how memories of the deat.

"A top class man. #LateLateShow" 'Oisin' revealed: "A pub in Kerry just went quiet to listen to Pat Spillane on The Late Late. "They went for a walk on the Saturday night and my father got a bad pain in the chest and the man with him said: 'Tom, you may go to the doctor.' "On the Monday night, when they went back to his car after coming down from London, he got bad pain in the chest again, lent against the wall...and on the Tuesday night, he died. He said: "The day of the All-Ireland, I saved my first public crying in front of the nation, and it was a tsunami of emotion released the minute the final whistle was blown."

Pat Spillane Going in Another Direction With His Career After ... (NewsCtrls)

The famous pundit of The Sunday Game opened up about his life since leaving the show and how he was harassed by internet trolls during his time on the RTE ...

Pat Spillane explains emotional Sunday Game moment in touching ... (Irish Mirror)

Spillane's emotional outburst at the end of Kerry's victory over Galway in this years All Ireland football final took many by surprise.

Pat Spillane Reveals His Mother Had Unusual Approach To GAA ... (Balls.ie)

The Spillane family is without doubt one of the most storied we have seen in GAA history.The trio of Pat, Mick, and Tom won an incredible 19 All-Ireland ...

She raised four kids without a widow's pension, couldn't drive so sold the car, and parked her life to raise the four kids. I remember one year I came back after an All-Ireland final in 1984. I had just won my fifth All-Ireland medal and been named man-of-the-match. Of course, the next generation of Killian and Adrian would also win their first Celtic crosses in July after the victory over Galway at Croke Park. She ran a bar, petrol pumps, a shop. There was two things about my mother.