Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Tomás Ó Ceallaigh | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Centre Back | ||
Born | Kellyville, County Laois | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
1999–2004 2005 2006–2011 | St Joseph's Round Towers Clondalkin St Joseph's | ||
Club titles | |||
Laois titles | 2 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
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]
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