Ben O'Carroll (born 2001/2002) is an Irish

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who plays as a forward for St Brigid's and the Roscommon county team. He has also played

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football. O'Carroll is a native of Hodson Bay, near

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. With the Roscommon under-20s, he won the 2021 Connacht Under-20 Football Championship, and then played in the 2021 All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship final. He made his senior debut for Roscommon in the 2023 National Football League, scoring 1–2 in a victory over Tyrone and collecting the "man of the match" award afterwards. By 2024, he was expected to begin any Roscommon game. However, injury limited his playing time for Roscommon, as well as his playing time for St Brigid's in the

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, and he had hip surgery towards the end of the year. With his club, O'Carroll was "man of the match" in Corofin's 2023

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final loss to St Brigid's. He received recognition from the AIB GAA Club Player Awards when he was selected for inclusion on its Team of the Year, and was nominated for Player of the Year, alongside Shane Walsh and eventual winner Conor Glass.

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2000s births Living people Roscommon inter-county Gaelic footballers St Brigid's (Roscommon) Gaelic footballers {{Roscommon-Gaelic-football-bio-stub