Rory O'Connell

Rory O'Connell is a former Gaelic footballer from Athlone, County Westmeath, who played his club football for Athlone and represented Westmeath at senior level. In 2001 he became Westmeath's first winner of a Football All Star award, one of the annual GAA GPA All Stars Awards. In 2004 he was part of the Westmeath team that won the county's first Leinster Senior Football Championship. His other honours include two National Football League Division 2 titles, won in 2001 and 2003, and two Railway Cup medals, won in 2001 and 2002. Taken together these honours place him in the Westmeath side that won its first provincial title in the early 2000s, a team whose success was recognised by the All Star award given to him in the first of those years.