Tim Kennelly

Tim Kennelly, born just outside Listowel, County Kerry, on 6 July 1954 and died on 6 December 2005, was an Irish Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned ten years from 1974 to 1984. He came to prominence with the Listowel Emmets club, winning two divisional junior championship medals and a county junior championship medal in 1972, and he won two county senior championship medals with the divisional side Feale Rangers. He debuted for the Kerry minor team at seventeen, won two All-Ireland under-21 medals, as a substitute in 1973 and on the field in 1975, and made his senior debut during the 1974-75 league. He won five All-Ireland medals, beginning with a lone triumph in 1975 and followed by four in a row from 1978 to 1981, nine Munster medals, three National Football League medals and back-to-back All Stars in 1979 and 1980.