Leo Turley

Leo Turley, born on 7 December 1966, is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois who played for the Laois senior football team from the late 1980s until the 1990s, mainly as a forward. In 1991 he was on the Laois team beaten by Meath in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship. He began his club career with his native O'Dempseys, with whom he won underage honours, and also played for Eire Og in Carlow and for Leixlip in Kildare. He later became a club manager, starting with Fenagh in Carlow in 1997, then Arles/Killeen in Laois, and then Blackhall Gaels in County Meath, whom he guided to the Meath Intermediate title in 2001 and the Meath Senior Football Championship in 2003. He also managed O'Dempseys in 2004 and 2005, and afterwards Confey, Dunshaughlin, Blackhall Gaels again, Donaghmore Ashbourne and Leixlip, before returning to O'Dempseys, who won promotion to senior ranks by taking the 2016 Laois Intermediate Championship.