Tom Kelly is a former
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 ...
er from
County Laois
County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medie ...
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His club is
St Joseph's. He usually played at centre back for Laois and in 2003 won an
All Stars Award and was part of the Laois team that won the
Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946.
Kelly twice travelled to Australia for the
International Rules Series, where he was Ireland's player of the series in 2005.
With St Joseph's, Kelly picked up two Laois Senior Football Championship medals.
In January 2011, Kelly was forced to retire due to a neck injury he sustained the year before.
Honours
;Club
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Laois Senior Football Championship (2): 1996, 2000
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Laois All-County Football League (2): 2001, 2010
;Inter-county
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Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 2003
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Leinster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 1998
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All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (1): 1997
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Leinster Minor Football Championship
The Leinster Minor Football Championship is the premier under-17 "knockout" competition in gaelic football played in the province of Leinster. 2017 was the final year of the minor under 18 football championship as it were replaced by an under 17 ...
(1): 1997
;Individual
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All Star (1): 2003
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International Rules Series Player of the Series (1): 2005
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
All Stars Awards winners (football)
Irish international rules football players
Irish schoolteachers
Laois inter-county Gaelic footballers
St Joseph's (Laois) Gaelic footballers