Tom Kelly

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