At club level he played with Abbeydorney and was also a member of the Kerry senior teams as a dual player.
He was later called up to the Kerry senior football team and came on as a substitute for Mick O'Connell in the 1959 All-Ireland final defeat of Galway.
[1] O'Connell later lined out with the Lancashire team that lost the 1963 All-Ireland junior final to Kerry.
[2] O'Connell entered the priesthood in the early 1950s, attending All Hallows College in Dublin.
He moved to Greater Manchester in 1959 and spent six years at St Anne’s Church in Crumpsall.