Editing Pat O'Callaghan (section)

==Early and private life==
O'Callaghan was born in the [[townland]] of Knockaneroe, near [[Kanturk]], [[County Cork]], on 28 January 1906,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/10726a2715655|title=General Registrar's Office|website=IrishGenealogy.ie|access-date=15 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Coolclough/Knockaneroe/415527/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland, 1911|website=www.census.nationalarchives.ie|language=en|access-date=2017-09-15}}</ref> the second of three sons born to Paddy O'Callaghan, a farmer, and Jane (née Healy). He began his education at the age of two at Derrygalun [[National school (Ireland)|national school]]. O'Callaghan progressed to [[secondary school]] in Kanturk and at the age of fifteen, he won a scholarship to the Patrician Academy in [[Mallow, County Cork|Mallow]]. During his year in the Patrician Academy, he cycled the {{convert|32|mile|order=flip|adj=on}} round trip from Derrygalun every day and he never missed a class. O'Callaghan subsequently studied medicine at the [[Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland|Royal College of Surgeons]] in [[Dublin]]. Following his graduation in 1926 as the youngest doctor ever produced by RCSI, he pursued postgraduate studies at [[University College Cork]], then joined the [[Royal Air Force]] [[RAF Medical Service|Medical Service]] and was stationed at [[RAF Halton]]. He returned to Ireland in 1928 and set up his own medical practice in [[Clonmel]], [[County Tipperary]], where he worked until his retirement in 1984.<ref name=r1>{{cite sports-reference |url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/oc/pat-ocallaghan-1.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173006/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/oc/pat-ocallaghan-1.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 17 April 2020 |title=Pat O'Callaghan |access-date= 19 October 2011}}</ref> O'Callaghan was also a renowned field sports practitioner, [[greyhound]] trainer and storyteller. In 1934, he married Kitty O'Reilly, a native of Clonmel, with whom he had four sons followed by a daughter. One of O'Callaghan's sons, Hugh, won twelve Irish national athletics titles (four shot put, four discus, two hammer, one javelin and one decathlon) and three Irish weightlifting titles, setting eight Irish shot put records and three Irish weightlifting records; he was also a successful weightlifting coach in the United States.<ref name="dict. of Irish Biog.">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ocallaghan-patrick-pat-a6548 |entry=O'Callaghan, Patrick (‘Pat’) |last=Rouse |first=Paul |title=O'Callaghan, Patrick (‘Pat’) |access-date=25 April 2025 |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Irish Biography |date=2009 |doi=10.3318/dib.006548.v1 |doi-access=free|url-access=subscription }}</ref>