Researching Paddy Bermingham
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The name Paddy means "Form of PATRICK. nobleman" and is of Irish origin.
Records of Paddy Bermingham on Ancestry
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 553 people with the Bermingham surname in the UK? Bermingham is now ranked number 3518 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Paddy Bermingham
Paddy Bermingham (athlete)
Patrick "Paddy" Joseph Bermingham (15 March 1886 – January 1959) was an Irish police officer and sportsman, specialising in the discus. He was from Moyasta in County Clare and joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
Bermingham won ten Irish national discus titles: IAAA titles in 1919 and 1920, and NACAI titles in 1923–4–5–6–7, 1930, 1932, and 1933. He held the Irish record at until 1939. He won five English AAA discus titles: 1924–5–6, 1932, and 1934. He also won four Irish titles in each of the 56 lbs weight throw events: for height (1923, 1925–6, 1929) and for distance (1923, 1925–6–7). He represented Ireland at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the qualifying round of the discus competition; his longest throw would have qualified for the final six but was discounted as a foul. His best mark of ranked him eleventh overall. He is recorded as having competed in the 1934 British Empire Games, though sources vary as to whether he represented the Irish Free State or Northern Ireland. He finished outside the top seven.
He is buried in Mount Jerome cemetery.
Several online football databases mistakenly suggest that Bermingham also played for the Irish Free State national football team vs Hungary in 1934, but that was a different Patrick Joseph Bermingham.
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