Timmy O'Dowd

Timothy O'Dowd, born in Tralee, County Kerry, in 1963, is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned six seasons from 1983 to 1988. He was born into a strong Gaelic football family: his father Tom had a distinguished career with the John Mitchels club and also played for Kerry at minor, junior and senior levels. He first appeared for John Mitchels at underage levels, winning a county under-21 championship medal in 1983, and had made his senior debut for the club as a fifteen-year-old in 1978 but enjoyed little success in that grade. He also lined out with the Thomas Davis club in Dublin. He made his debut on the inter-county scene at sixteen when he was picked on the Kerry minor team.