Tim Kennelly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Gaelic football player
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Place of Birth: Listowel, Munster, Ireland
About Tim Kennelly
- Tim Kennelly (6 July 1954 – 6 December 2005) was Irish Gaelic footballer.
- His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned ten years from 1974 to 1984.
- Born just outside Listowel, County Kerry, Kennelly played competitive Gaelic football in his youth.
- He came to prominence with the Listowel Emmets club, winning two divisional junior championship medals as well as a county junior championship medal in 1972.
- Kennelly was a regular on the Feale Rangers divisional team over a ten-year period, and won two county senior championship medals. Kennelly made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was picked on the Kerry minor team.
- He had two championship seasons with the minor team, however, he was a Munster runner-up on both occasions.
- Kennelly subsequently joined the Kerry under-21 team, winning two All-Ireland medals as a substitute in 1973 and on the field of play in 1975.
- By this stage he had also joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1974-75 league.
- Over the course of the next ten years, Kennelly won five All-Ireland medals, beginning with a lone triumph in 1975 before a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 1978 to 1981.
- He also won nine Munster medals, three National Football League medals and claimed back-to-back All Stars in 1979 and 1980.
- He played his last competitive game for Kerry in February 1984, but remained on the panel for the subsequent provincial championship.After being chosen on the Munster inter-provincial team for the first time in 1977, Kennelly was an automatic choice on the team for six successive championships.
- During that time he won four Railway Cup medals. Kennelly's two sons also played for Kerry.
- Noel Kennelly won an All-Ireland medal in 2000 while Tadhg Kennelly claimed a winners' medal in 2009, having earlier become the first Irish person to win an AFL Premiership medal with Sydney Swans.
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