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Pat McCarthy (born 1950) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder for the Kerry and Kildare senior teams.A nephew of 1940s player Phil McCarthy Pat McCarthy was a naturally strong player with excellent hands and a good jump.He was part of the Kerry Under-21 team in the early 1970s but had to wait till the demise of the great Mick O’Connell and the failure of young midfield pretenders like DJ Crowley and John O’Keeffe before getting a proper chance on the senior squad in 1975 under Mick O’Dwyer.