Barry John Walsh

Barry John Walsh, born in 1990, plays Gaelic football at club level for Kerins O'Rahillys and at senior level for the Kerry county team. He is the son of the former Kerry footballer Sean Walsh and the brother of Tommy Walsh, another former Kerry footballer who went on to play Australian rules football for the Sydney Swans. As an underage player he was talented at both football and soccer, playing international soccer for the Irish under-15 team and minor football for Kerry, and a local newspaper wrote of his sublime skills in that period. He made his senior debut for Kerry in 2009 as a substitute and won the All-Ireland football final with Kerry that same year. Former Kerry player Tadhg Kennelly named him among the young players expected to keep the team strong for years, though he was left out of the initial Kerry panel for the 2010 championship.