Tommy Walsh is a Carlow Gaelic footballer, who has also played with Wicklow. He plays for the Fenagh club. He also played hurling with

Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...

Career

Walsh won the

Tommy Murphy Cup The Tommy Murphy Cup was a Gaelic football competition, featuring senior county teams eliminated from the early stages of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and also Kilkenny when not fielding a team in the main All-Ireland. The series ...

with Wicklow in 2007. There were then rumours about a possible return to Carlow under new manager

Paul Bealin Paul Bealin (born 1967/1968) is a former Gaelic footballer who played in midfield at senior level for the Dublin county team. He later managed three senior county teams: Westmeath (sacked after a year), Wexford (resigning in October 2007) and ...

. Tommy then played with Wicklow against

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in the

O'Byrne Cup The Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup is a Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster GAA and first staged in 1954. The competition is named after Matt Byrne, a former Wicklow GAA club and county officer. By virtue of a quirk in translation, ...

and had confirmed that he would remain with

Mick O'Dwyer Michael O'Dwyer (born 9 June 1936) is an Irish retired Gaelic football manager and former player. He most famously managed the senior Kerry county team between 1974 and 1989, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager an ...

. However, his return to Carlow was announced in April 2010 to face his former Wiclow colleagues in 16 May's

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opener.Thomas Walsh to resume Carlow career
RTÉ. 8 April 2010.

Personal life

Tommy is the brother of Carlow footballer Patrick Walsh.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dual players Carlow inter-county Gaelic footballers Carlow hurlers Fenagh Gaelic footballers Wicklow inter-county Gaelic footballers Bray Emmets Gaelic footballers {{Wicklow-gaelic-football-bio-stub