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Tom Kelly is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois.

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

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

With St Joseph's, Kelly picked up two Laois Senior Football Championship medals.

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

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

References

1. "GAA Stories". Donegal News. 27 October 2005. Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
2. "Laois is happy to follow Armagh". Belfast Telegraph. 2 August 2003. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
3. "Kelly hoping for courageous effort". Hogan Stand. 27 October 2005. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
4. "Aussies triumph but at a price?". Hogan Stand. 28 October 2005. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
5. "Laois' Kelly career cut short". RTÉ Sport. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.

• All Stars Awards winners (football)
• Living people
• Irish international rules football players
• Irish schoolteachers
• Laois inter-county Gaelic footballers
• St Joseph's (Laois) Gaelic footballers