Colin O'Riordan (born 12 October 1995) is an Irish former professional

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er for the

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in the

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(AFL). Before leaving Ireland O'Riordan played

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as a midfielder for the Tipperary senior team.

Early life

Born in

Templemore Templemore () is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in the historical Barony (Ireland), barony of Eliogarty. It is part of the Ecclesiastical parish, parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea i ...

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, O'Riordan first played competitive

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during his schooling at Our Lady's Secondary School. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of fifteen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minors teams as a

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before later joining the under-21 sides. O'Riordan's father, Michael, and his brothers, Kevin and Alan, have also played at various levels with Tipperary.

Gaelic Football

O'Riordan made his senior debut during the 2014 league. O'Riordan immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and has won one National League (Division 4) medal. At club level O'Riordan plays both Gaelic football and

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with J. K. Bracken's. On 22 November 2020, O'Riordan who had returned to Ireland had permission from the

to play for Tipperary in the 2020 Munster Final, which Tipperary won 0-17 to 0-14 against

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. It was Tipperary's first Munster title in 85 years. In January 2021, O'Riordan was nominated for an

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award.

AFL

In October 2015, O'Riordan signed a rookie contract with the

in the AFL. In 2018, O'Riordan trained under 2005 premiership Swan Tadhg Kennelly. On 15 July 2018, O'Riordan became the third Irish player to play for Sydney, making his debut in round 17 against

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. In August 2022, O'Riordan announced his retirement from the AFL due to a chronic hip injury. He played 34 games since joining the Sydney Swans in October 2015.

Statistics

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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Honours

;Tipperary * National League (Division 4) (1):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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(1):

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

All-Ireland Minor Football Championship The Electric Ireland All-Ireland Minor Football Championship is the premier under-17 "knockout" competition in Gaelic football played in Ireland. 2017 was the final year of the minor under 18 football championship as it was replaced by an under ...

(1):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

* Munster Minor Football Championship (2):

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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(1):

;Awards *EirGrid Under-21 Player of the Year (1): 2015

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oriordan, Colin 1995 births Living people J.K. Bracken's hurlers J.K. Bracken's Gaelic footballers Tipperary inter-county Gaelic footballers Tipperary inter-county hurlers People educated at Our Lady's Secondary School, Templemore 21st-century Irish sportsmen

Early life

Gaelic Football

AFL

Statistics

Honours

See also

References

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