Tom Kelly is a former Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

 player from Laois in Ireland.

His club is St Josephs GAA

St Josephs GAA

St. Josephs GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football club in County Laois, Ireland. It is a parish team and is made up of the four small areas represented on the club crest: Ballyadams, Luggacurren, The Swan and Wolfhill....

. He usually plays at centre back for Laois and in 2003 won an All-Star

GAA All Stars Awards

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 award and was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship

Leinster Senior Football Championship

The GAA Leinster Senior Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of football played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Leinster Council and are played during the summer months. The competition involves the counties of...

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

With St Josephs GAA Tom has picked up two Laois Senior Football Championship medals.