Declan Quill is an Irish

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er who played at senior level for the Kerry county team and with the

Kerins O'Rahilly's Kerins O'Rahilly's' Gaelic Athletic Association club from Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. They are based in the Strand Road area of the town. They are in Division 1 of the county league which they won in 2006, and compete in the Intermediate Cha ...

club in

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. A double

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winner, Quill is noted as a talented, skillful and prolific forward. Winning co manager of the All Ireland Senior Ladies Championship in 2024 with Kerry.

Playing career

Quill was a star of Kerry teams in the

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and

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. He first appeared for the Kerry senior team in 2001. He played in the

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, and went on to come off the bench in three

matches that year. Quill continued to play with the Kerry panel, having great success in the National League, but never quite establishing himself in the starting line-up for the Championship. From 2001 to 2005, Declan Quill played in five consecutive

semi-finals, but never appeared in the final. He did receive two All-Ireland medals as a substitute. Frustrated by the apparent lack of Championship opportunities given to him by management in the light of his League performances, he did not play with Kerry in 2006. He returned 2008. Quill was joint manager of the Kerry ladies from 2020 onwards. A Declan Quill also does punditry with

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where he is a described as a "former Kerry footballer" and "a star forward with the Kerry seniors in his day", so it a fair guess that probably be him.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish schoolteachers Kerins O'Rahilly's Gaelic footballers Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Ladies' Gaelic football managers Sportspeople from Tralee TG4 people {{Kerry-Gaelic-football-bio-stub