At club level he played with Ballinamere and was also a member of the Offaly senior football team.
A dual player at minor levels in 1956, 1957 and 1958, he came onto the Offaly senior football team during the 1958-59 National League.
Daly won back-to-back Leinster SFC titles in 1960 and 1961, and lined out at centre-forward when Offaly were beaten by Down in the 1961 All-Ireland final.
[3] Daly enlisted in the Defence Forces in 1960 and was commissioned into the Infantry Corps as a Second-Lieutenant on a year later.
Daly also served overseas with the United Nations and was Chief Operations Officer with UNIFIL in 1992.