Gabriel Kelly

Gabriel Kelly is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Cavan county team. He was renowned as one of the great corner-backs of his era and was the first Cavan man to receive a Cú Chulainn Award. He featured regularly on the All-Star teams selected in the 1960s, in 1963, 1964 and 1967, and was a permanent fixture on the Ulster Railway Cup teams of that decade, in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968. He won Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1962, 1964, 1967 and 1969. He also won a Connacht Minor Football Championship with the Mayo county team. After his playing career he managed Cavan in the early 1980s, and he is listed at number 122 in The 125 Greatest Stars of the GAA.