Patrick Tully

Father Patrick Tully, known as Packie Tully, was a prominent figure in Meath GAA circles who trained the Meath Gaelic football teams that won the All-Ireland Senior titles of 1949, 1954 and 1967. Before the 1949 victory Meath had never won a senior All-Ireland. He was educated at Kentstown National School, St Finian's College in Mullingar and St Patrick's College, Maynooth, was ordained a priest in 1942 and served in several parishes of the Meath dioceses before being posted to Moynalty in 1948. In 1949 he was elected Meath County Board chairman, a post he held for twenty years while continuing to train the senior team. As a player he turned out for the Navan De La Salles and Seneschalstown clubs. He was one of the organisers of the 1968 Meath footballers' tour of Australia, which led to the International Rules Series between Gaelic footballers and Australian rules footballers.