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Exhibit 23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation:
We consent to incorporation by reference in:
| • | Registration statement No. 333-154751 on Form S-3 of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation’s Shelf Registration of Common Stock; |
| • | Registration statement No. 333-111732 on Form S-3 of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation’s Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan; |
| • | Registration statement No. 333-113534 on Form S-8 of GA Financial, Inc. Stock Option Plan; |
| • | Registration statement No. 333-111735 on Form S-8 of Pittsburgh Financial Corp. Stock Option Plan; |
| • | Registration statement No. 033-55687 on Form S-8 of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation’s Stock Option Plan; and |
| • | Registration statement No. 333-159090 on Form S-8 of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation’s Incentive Compensation Plan |
of our report dated March 1, 2010 with respect to the consolidated statements of financial condition of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2009, and effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, which reports are incorporated by reference in the December 31, 2009, Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company. Our report with respect to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company refers to a change in 2009 in the Company’s methods of accounting for other-than-temporary impairments.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 1, 2010