Colm Parkinson

Colm Parkinson (born 1978 in Meelick, Portlaoise), known as Wooly, is a retired Irish Gaelic footballer and journalist who played club football for Portlaoise and inter-county football for Laois. A decorated underage player, he graduated to the Portlaoise senior team in 1997 and won six Laois Senior Football Championship titles, in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2011. He captained Portlaoise to the 2004 county title and the Leinster club title that year, when he was named Leinster club player of the year and Laois player of the year, and the club lost the All-Ireland final by a point. He spent two seasons with the Parnells club in Dublin from 2009. With Laois he won the 1996 Leinster and All-Ireland minor titles and a Leinster Under-21 title in 1998, the year he made his senior debut against Westmeath, and he won the 2003 Leinster Senior Football Championship before leaving the Laois panel in 2011.