Tom Kelly (Gaelic footballer)

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Tom Kelly
Personal information
Irish name Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
Sport Gaelic football
Position Centre Back
Born Kellyville, County Laois
Club(s)
YearsClub
1999–2004
2005
2006–2011
St Joseph's
Round Towers Clondalkin
St Joseph's
Club titles
Laois titles 2
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1999–2010
Laois
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 1
All Stars 1

Tom Kelly is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois.

His club is St Joseph's. He usually played at centre back for Laois and in 2003 won an All Stars Award [1] and was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946. [2]

Kelly twice travelled to Australia for the International Rules Series, [3] where he was Ireland's player of the series in 2005. [4]

With St Joseph's, Kelly picked up two Laois Senior Football Championship medals.[ citation needed ]

In January 2011 Kelly was forced to retire due to a neck injury he sustained the year before. [5]

Honours

Club
Inter-county
Individual

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References

  1. "GAA Stories". Donegal News . 27 October 2005. Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
  2. "Laois is happy to follow Armagh". Belfast Telegraph . 2 August 2003. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
  3. "Kelly hoping for courageous effort". Hogan Stand . 27 October 2005. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
  4. "Aussies triumph but at a price?". Hogan Stand . 28 October 2005. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
  5. "Laois' Kelly career cut short". RTÉ Sport. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.