Chris Pendergast
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Christopher-Paul Peter Pendergast BA
PGDE
(Irish
: Críostoir-Pól Peadar de Piondargás BA
PGDE
), commonly known as Chris Pendergast (Irish
: Críos Piondárgas) is a Scottish
born Gaelic Football
er of Irish descent
. He currently plays with Glasgow
side Tir Conaill Harps
.
in the 2008 pre-season training. Despite the injury setbacks, on Saturday 17 May 2008, Pendergast went on to make his full debut for the club at Dundee
, starting at Full Forward
against Dún Deagh Dálriada
. Pendergast's first honour in the game came as an unused substitute in the Harps 1-10 to 1-06 win over city rivals Glaschu Gaels in the 2009 Davitt Shield
Final.
Despite the promising start the season gave Pendergast's injury troubles continued into the season after he sustained a phalangeal avulsion fracture
while playing in a soccer match in Varadero
, Cuba
in late June. The resulting injury was initially expected to be a 3 to 4 week lay off. Complications from the fracture however resulted in reduced mobility of the joint which subsequently brought Pendergast's 2009 club season to a premature end.
at the beginning of the 2008/09 season. After sustaining injury during the 2009 season, Pendergast was cleared fit by October and again took part in university GAA representing Glasgow Caledonian
for the second season running. With injury worries firmly in the past, Pendergast made the starting line-up for two home matches in against the University of Abertay and the University of Stirling
in the Scottish University Gaelic Football League B Division, which was subsequently won by Caley.
Pendergast played in the 2010 British University Gaelic Football Championship
in Birmingham. He played in the teams matches against University of Birmingham
and Rennes University as Caledonian finished as runners up in their group.
The 2009/10 season for Glasgow Caledonian ended in great success for the team. Pendergast was part of the team that won the Scottish University Gaelic Football Championships with a convincing win over Stirling at the University of Stirling. The win was achieved amid an ill-tempered match which saw Stirling reduced to only 12 men. The win secured Pendergast's 3rd honour of the game and 2nd at university level.
, Glasgow
holds a BA and PGDE
from Glasgow Caledonian University
and the University of Strathclyde
. Pendergast studied Integrated Product Design and Teaching. Between spells at university he studied at Graphic Design, with a specialism in Illustration at Cardonald College
, Glasgow. He has subsequently achieved a PG-Cert in Religious Education at the University of Glasgow
. As well as being a native speaker of Scots
, Pendergast also speaks Scottish Gaelic. He is currently working on language skills at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
, currently undertaking a BA degree.
During part-time bar work at the Crowne Plaza Glasgow, Finneston, Pendergast developed the cocktail the Govana Libre
, which was named after his place of birth.
He is the 2nd cousin 3 times removed of Scottish
Skiffle
musician Lonnie Donegan
.
Scottish University Gaelic Football B Championships
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
PGDE
Professional Graduate Diploma in Education
The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education is a one-year course in Scotland for undergraduate degree holders that allows them to train to be a teacher....
(Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
: Críostoir-Pól Peadar de Piondargás BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
PGDE
Professional Graduate Diploma in Education
The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education is a one-year course in Scotland for undergraduate degree holders that allows them to train to be a teacher....
), commonly known as Chris Pendergast (Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
: Críos Piondárgas) is a Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
born Gaelic Football
Gaelic football
Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
er of Irish descent
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
. He currently plays with Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
side Tir Conaill Harps
Tír Conaill Harps
Tír Conaill Harps Gaelic Athletics Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association Club based in Glasgow, Scotland. The club plays Gaelic Football, Ladies' Gaelic Football as well as Camogie and Women's Shinty. The club is the biggest GAA club in Scotland in terms of structure and has a fully integrated...
.
Club career
Pendergast joined Tír Conaill Harps on entering the sport in 2007, having previously, and exclusively, played soccer. His Tír Conaill career was initially marred by injury, suffering a torn quadricep late on in the 2007 season. The following season started as the previous had ended with Pendergast sustaining a broken fingerAvulsion fracture
An avulsion fracture is a bone fracture which occurs when a fragment of bone tears away from the main mass of bone as a result of physical trauma. This can occur at the ligament due to the application forces external to the body or at the tendon due to a muscular contraction that is stronger than...
in the 2008 pre-season training. Despite the injury setbacks, on Saturday 17 May 2008, Pendergast went on to make his full debut for the club at Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
, starting at Full Forward
Gaelic football and Hurling positions
The following are the positions in the Gaelic sports of Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. Like rugby and baseball, and unlike soccer, these have set positions which haven't changed in decades...
against Dún Deagh Dálriada
Dún Deagh Dálriada
Dundee Dalriada GFC is a Gaelic football club based in the City of Dundee, Scotland. Their team play in black and gold horizontally striped jerseys, black shorts and black socks...
. Pendergast's first honour in the game came as an unused substitute in the Harps 1-10 to 1-06 win over city rivals Glaschu Gaels in the 2009 Davitt Shield
Davitt Shield
The Michael Davitt Shield is a Scottish Gaelic Football pre-season tournament founded in 2001. The competition takes place in the April of each season. The trophy is named after Irish Republican activist and founder of the Irish National Land League, Michael Davitt. Glaschu Gaels were the inaugural...
Final.
Avulsion fracture
An avulsion fracture is a bone fracture which occurs when a fragment of bone tears away from the main mass of bone as a result of physical trauma. This can occur at the ligament due to the application forces external to the body or at the tendon due to a muscular contraction that is stronger than...
while playing in a soccer match in Varadero
Varadero
Varadero is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean. Varadero is also called Playa Azul, which means "blue beach" in Spanish.-Geography:...
, Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
in late June. The resulting injury was initially expected to be a 3 to 4 week lay off. Complications from the fracture however resulted in reduced mobility of the joint which subsequently brought Pendergast's 2009 club season to a premature end.
University career
As well as playing at club level, Pendergast joined Glasgow Caledonian University GACGlasgow Caledonian University GAC
Glasgow Caledonian University GAC is the university Gaelic Football club representing Glasgow Caledonian University. The club was established by the university's Irish Student Society in 2007 and formed a link up with local club Tir Conaill Harps...
at the beginning of the 2008/09 season. After sustaining injury during the 2009 season, Pendergast was cleared fit by October and again took part in university GAA representing Glasgow Caledonian
Glasgow Caledonian University GAC
Glasgow Caledonian University GAC is the university Gaelic Football club representing Glasgow Caledonian University. The club was established by the university's Irish Student Society in 2007 and formed a link up with local club Tir Conaill Harps...
for the second season running. With injury worries firmly in the past, Pendergast made the starting line-up for two home matches in against the University of Abertay and the University of Stirling
University of Stirling
The University of Stirling is a campus university founded by Royal charter in 1967, on the Airthrey Estate in Stirling, Scotland.-History and campus development:...
in the Scottish University Gaelic Football League B Division, which was subsequently won by Caley.
Pendergast played in the 2010 British University Gaelic Football Championship
British University Gaelic football Championship
The British University Gaelic football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament held for universities in Great Britain. It is organised by the BUGAA which is a branch of the Higher Education GAA committee which oversees Gaelic Games in Universities. The competition is also overseen by...
in Birmingham. He played in the teams matches against University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
and Rennes University as Caledonian finished as runners up in their group.
The 2009/10 season for Glasgow Caledonian ended in great success for the team. Pendergast was part of the team that won the Scottish University Gaelic Football Championships with a convincing win over Stirling at the University of Stirling. The win was achieved amid an ill-tempered match which saw Stirling reduced to only 12 men. The win secured Pendergast's 3rd honour of the game and 2nd at university level.
life
Pendergast, a native of GovanGovan
Govan is a district and former burgh now part of southwest City of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the south bank of the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Kelvin and the district of Partick....
, Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
holds a BA and PGDE
Professional Graduate Diploma in Education
The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education is a one-year course in Scotland for undergraduate degree holders that allows them to train to be a teacher....
from Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland.The university was constituted by an Act of Parliament on 1 April 1993 as a result of a merger between Glasgow Polytechnic and The Queen's College, Glasgow....
and the University of Strathclyde
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...
. Pendergast studied Integrated Product Design and Teaching. Between spells at university he studied at Graphic Design, with a specialism in Illustration at Cardonald College
Cardonald College
Cardonald College is a medium-sized Further education institute located in Glasgow's South Side, in Scotland. Officially opened in 1972, it has over 12,000 full-time and part-time students. Cardonald college takes both students who have just left school and mature students.The Main Campus is...
, Glasgow. He has subsequently achieved a PG-Cert in Religious Education at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
. As well as being a native speaker of Scots
Scots language
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...
, Pendergast also speaks Scottish Gaelic. He is currently working on language skills at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a Scottish Gaelic medium college located about north of Armadale on the Sleat peninsula of the island of Skye in northwestern Scotland. It is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands and also has a campus on Islay known as Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle.The college was...
, currently undertaking a BA degree.
During part-time bar work at the Crowne Plaza Glasgow, Finneston, Pendergast developed the cocktail the Govana Libre
Govana Libre
The Govana Libre is a Scottish cocktail based primarily on dark rum. The cocktail was invented in 2009 after a competition was raised by both the City of Glasgow and the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. Its name is a play on words of the Havana Libre and Govan, the area where the inventor was born...
, which was named after his place of birth.
He is the 2nd cousin 3 times removed of Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
Skiffle
Skiffle
Skiffle is a type of popular music with jazz, blues, folk, roots and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments. Originating as a term in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, it became popular again in the UK in the 1950s, where it was mainly...
musician Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan
Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan MBE was a skiffle musician, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is known as the "King of Skiffle" and is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s...
.
University
Scottish University Gaelic Football League B Division-
- Winners: 2010
Scottish University Gaelic Football B Championships
-
- Winners: 2010