Karl Lenihan

Karl Lenihan is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois who played for the Laois senior football team during the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in midfield, and was widely regarded in that period as one of the best players in the county in that position. He began his club career with Stradbally, moved to Courtwood, where his father Sean was manager, and then returned to his native Stradbally, whom he captained to the Laois Intermediate Football Championship in 1983. His final and most successful club spell was with Portlaoise, with whom he won Laois Senior Football Championship titles in 1987, 1990 and 1991. After playing he moved into management, taking charge of Courtwood in two separate spells, and in 2007 he was appointed manager of the Portlaoise senior football team, with Tom Prendergast, Paddy Fitzpatrick and George Plunkett as selectors, leading the club straight to its twenty fourth Laois Senior Football Championship.