{{Short description|Mayo Gaelic footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox GAA player | code= Football | sport = Gaelic football | image = | name = Paddy Moclair | irish = Pádraig Mocléir | fullname = | feet = | inches = | occupation = Bank clerk / Publican | county = Mayo | province = Connacht | club = | cposition = | clubs = Castlebar Mitchels<br>Ballina Stephenites | clyears = 1929–1943 | clapps(points) = | clcounty = 9 | clprovince= | clallireland = | counties = Mayo | icposition = Full-forward | icyears = 1930–1942 | icapps(points) = | icprovince = 7 | icallireland = 1 | nfl = 6 | allstars = 1 | clupdate = | icupdate = | birth_date= 1 September 1907 | death_date= 9 May 1983 (aged 75) | birth_place=Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland | death_place=Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland }} '''Paddy Moclair''' (1 September 1907 – 9 May 1983) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a full-forward and as a full-back at senior level for the Mayo county team.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.con-telegraph.ie/opinion/auld-stock/1792-jb-morans-corner-matchmaking-in-the-snug-madame-levantes-orchestra|title=Paddy Moclair, superstar|date=1 December 2010|newspaper=Connaught Telegraph|accessdate=13 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110213095317/http://www.con-telegraph.ie/opinion/auld-stock/1792-jb-morans-corner-matchmaking-in-the-snug-madame-levantes-orchestra|archive-date=13 February 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> After retiring from Gaelic football he was a leading greyhound trainer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fortune|first=Michael|title=Irish Greyhound Derby 1932–1981|publisher=Victory Irish Promotions Ltd}}</ref>
==Gaelic football career== Moclair joined the team during the 1930 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement following the conclusion of the 1942 championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal, seven Connacht medals, six National League medals and one All-Time All Star Award.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Mayo/Profile.aspx|title=Mayo GAA profile|publisher=Hogan Stand website|accessdate=13 April 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702202421/http://www.hoganstand.com/Mayo/Profile.aspx|archivedate=2 July 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Moclair experienced a fourteen-year club career with Castlebar Mitchels and Ballina Stephenites, winning nine county championship medals.
==Retirement== After retiring from Gaelic football he took up the training of racing greyhounds and gained a good reputation. His training career culminated in winning the 1948 Irish Greyhound Derby with a greyhound called Western Post on 4 September 1948.<ref>{{cite book|last=Genders|first=Roy|title=NGRC book of Greyhound Racing|page =261|year=1990|publisher=Pelham Books Ltd|isbn=0-7207-1804-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Fortune|first=Michael|title=The 75 Years History of the Irish Greyhound Derby|journal=Irish Greyhound Review|issn=0332-3536}}</ref>
==Cup== Starting in 1971, the Paddy Moclair Cup is awarded to the winners of the Mayo Senior Football Championship.
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{{s-start}} {{s-sports}} {{succession box | before=Séamus O'Malley | title=Mayo Senior Football Captain | years=1937–1939 | after= }} {{s-ach|aw}} {{succession box | after=Jim McCullough<br>(Armagh) | title=GAA All-Time All Star Award | years=1982 | before=Tommy Murphy<br>(Laois) }} {{s-end}}
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