Tom Kelly is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois.
He usually played at centre back for Laois and in 2003 won an All Stars Award[1] and was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946.
[2] Kelly twice travelled to Australia for the International Rules Series,[3] where he was Ireland's player of the series in 2005.
[4] With St Joseph's, Kelly picked up two Laois Senior Football Championship medals.
[citation needed] In January 2011, Kelly was forced to retire due to a neck injury he sustained the year before.