Paddy Kennedy (Sligo Gaelic footballer)

Paddy Kennedy (1926 to 2011) was a Gaelic footballer from County Sligo. He played for the Sligo county team during the 1950s and won a Connacht Junior Football Championship with the county in 1956. At club level he played for Tourlestrane, helping the club to its first Sligo Senior Football Championship, also in 1956. His two sons, Fintan and Richard, later followed him into the game and won senior championship medals with Tourlestrane in the 1990s. Gaelic football is the amateur code run by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played mainly between clubs and counties in Ireland.