Teu Ó hAilpÃn is an
Irish sportsperson (
Gaelic football
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er) playing for
Na Piarsaigh GAA and
Australian Rules football
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club Leeside Lions.
Born in
Cork
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***Wine cork
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, he was a
Gaelic Athletic Association player who played for the
Éire Óg club in Ennis and Na Piarsaigh in Cork. He is the brother of
Cork
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* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
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***Wine cork
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* Cork (city)
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senior hurling players
Seán Óg Ó hAilpÃn and
Aisake and older brother of
Carlton
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Australian footballer
Setanta. He left Cork City team Na Piarsaigh in 2001 and signed for Clare side Éire Óg. Teu declared for
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in 2001, despite having played for minor and Under-21 level for Cork, he later moved to London after a short term in intercounty senior football.
Ó hAilpÃn won the
London Senior Hurling Championship with
London GAA
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side Robert Emmett's in 2004.
Leeside Lions career
Ó hAilpÃn decided to quit Gaelic football and joined
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
club Leeside Lions in the
Australian Rules Football League of Ireland (ARFLI). He immediately became a star and helped them to win the 2007 Premiership with
Tadhg Kennelly's cousin, Denis Kennelly.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian Gaelic footballers
Australian hurlers
Clare inter-county hurlers
Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers
Dual players
DCU Gaelic footballers
DCU hurlers
Éire Óg Ennis Gaelic footballers
Éire Óg, Inis hurlers
Irish expatriate sportspeople in England
Irish players of Australian rules football
Irish people of Rotuman descent
Na Piarsaigh Gaelic footballers
Na Piarsaigh hurlers
Teu
Robert Emmett's (London) hurlers
Sportspeople from Cork (city)
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people