Father Patrick Tully (Fr. Packie Tully) was a well-known figure in

Meath GAA The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste na Mí) or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for M ...

circles, particularly for his training of Meath

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

teams of 1949, 1954 and 1967 to All Ireland Senior titles. Prior to the 1949 win Meath had never won a Senior All Ireland Title. Fr Tully was educated at Kentstown National School,

St Finian's College St Finian's College is a secondary school, the diocesan school of the Diocese of Meath. It is located in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, and is under the patronage of The Most Reverend Thomas Deenihan, Bishop of Meath. Rev. Fr. Paul Conn ...

, Mullingar and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth,Obituaries
Seneschalstown GAA Website. where he was ordained a priest in 1942 and subsequently served in a number of parishes in the Meath dioceses when in 1948 he was posted to

Moynalty Moynalty () is a village in the north-west of County Meath in Ireland. It is located at the junction of the R194 and R164 regional roads north of Kells, near the border with County Cavan. It was part of the Kells Poor Law Union. The Boro ...

. While based here he was elected County Board Chairman in 1949, a post he held for 20 years and combined this with training the Meath Senior football team. As a player, he played with Navan De La Salles and Seneschalstown GAA Clubs in Meath. He was one of the organisers of the 1968 Meath footballers' tour of Australia, which would lead to the

International Rules Series The International Rules Series is a senior men's international rules football competition between the Australia international rules football team (selected by the Australian Football League) and the Ireland international rules football team (s ...

matches between Gaelic footballers and

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

ers.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20071117022224/http://www.seneschalstowngaa.com/obituaries.aspx

References

1916 births Year of death missing People educated at St Finian's College Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Chairmen of county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association International rules football 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Meath County Board administrators Meath Gaelic footballers {{Meath-gaelic-football-bio-stub