Career
He was elected as Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Kildare North constituency at the 2007 general election, and served until 2011. He was the constituency manager in Kildare for former Minister for Finance and European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy from 1992 to 2007. He also was a Kildare mayor.
In 2010, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
In an interview with The Irish Times on 12 March 2010, he said he intended to keep working as a Territorial Decoration. Fitzpatrick said he had “compared notes” with Brian Lenihan. “We are both on a journey.
We talk and chat to one another about our illnesses”. He gave a presentation on his condition to the Irish Motor Neurone Research Foundation.
He lost his seat in the general election in February 2011 and died in October 2011.
Fianna Fáil cancelled its Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown, County Kildare as a mark of respect. His funeral was in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Allenwood, County Kildare.