Karl O'Dwyer

Karl O'Dwyer is a former footballer from Waterville in south County Kerry. He played with the Kerry team that was beaten by Clare in the final of the 1992 Munster Senior Football Championship, and he later played with Kildare, where his father Mick was manager. In 1998 he helped Kildare to their first Leinster Senior Football Championship title since 1956 and then to their first All-Ireland final since 1928, which they lost to Galway after beating his native Kerry in the semi-final, and at the end of the year he won an All Star at full forward. He helped Kildare to another Leinster title in 2000 and retired from inter-county football in 2002. At club level he played for Waterville and South Kerry, won an All-Ireland under-21 medal with Kerry in 1990 and later won a Kildare Senior Football Championship with Round Towers in 2003.