Tom Kelly (Gaelic footballer)

For other people named Tom Kelly, see Tom Kelly (disambiguation).

Tom Kelly is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois.

Tom Kelly

Personal information
Irish name	Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Centre Back
Born	Kellyville, County Laois
Club(s)
Years	Club
1999–2004 2005 2006–2011	St Joseph's Round Towers Clondalkin St Joseph's
Club titles
Laois titles	2
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1999–2010	Laois
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	1
All Stars	1

His club is St Joseph's. He usually played at centre back for Laois and in 2003 won an All Stars Award^[1] and was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946.^[2]

Kelly twice travelled to Australia for the International Rules Series,^[3] where he was Ireland's player of the series in 2005.^[4]

With St Joseph's, Kelly picked up two Laois Senior Football Championship medals.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2011, Kelly was forced to retire due to a neck injury he sustained the year before.^[5]

Honours

Club

• Laois Senior Football Championship (2): 1996, 2000
• Laois All-County Football League (2): 2001, 2010

Inter-county

• Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 2003
• Leinster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 1998
• All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (1): 1997
• Leinster Minor Football Championship (1): 1997

Individual

• All Star (1): 2003
• International Rules Series Player of the Series (1): 2005