Joe McElroy is a
Gaelic football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...
er who plays for the
Armagh Harps club and at senior level for the
Armagh county team. He played against
Kerry in the
2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Semi-Final, helping to send his team through to a first final for
21 years.
McElroy performed a crucial block against an attempt by
Galway
Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settleme ...
player
Paul Conroy to level the
2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final in the seventh minute of injury-time.
This proved critical to Armagh's eventual one-point victory, as otherwise the game would have gone to extra-time.
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References
Living people
Armagh Harps Gaelic footballers
Armagh inter-county Gaelic footballers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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