Dom O'Donnell was a

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 from

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. He played Gaelic football with his local club John Mitchels, and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team during the 1960s. He won Munster Championship medals in 1962 and 1964. In 1964, he also won an All Ireland Under 21 medal as captain of the winning team. At club level, O'Donnell was part of the famed John Mitchels team of the late 1950s and 1960s, winning six

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s (five in a row from 1959 to 1963 and again in 1966).

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people John Mitchels (Kerry) Gaelic footballers Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Kerry-gaelic-football-bio-stub