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Former Kilkenny star Aidan Fogarty
Aidan Fogarty from Urlingford, County Kilkenny, played successfully as a left corner-forward for the Kilkenny senior team and has eight All-Ireland medals to his name. Throughout his career Fogarty made 38 championship appearances. He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling in November 2014.
In a previous sit down interview with the Kilkenny People, the Emeralds clubman admitted any perceived confidence is not necessarily the case and explained where is now famous nickname originated from.
Is there anything that people might not know about you?
There’s a lot of things but I am not going to share them! I suppose the persona of Taggy is that I am confident and that everything is no problem to me. However there’s a real side of me that is vulnerable at times and I can be very deep type of person.
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Why are you called Taggy?
My older brother was called ‘Froggy’ in primary school. So when I started, I was called Tadpole, being the younger brother. Tadpole turned into Taggy!
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