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Ollie Kilkenny (born 7 February 1962) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played
hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...
with his local club
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and with the
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senior inter-county team in the 1980s and 1990s. Kilkenny won back-to-back
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winners' medals with Galway in 1987 and 1988.


See also

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Giolla Ceallaigh mac Comhaltan Giolla Ceallaigh mac Comhaltan () was an ancestor to the MacGiolla Ceallaigh (Kilkelly family of County Galway). Giolla Cellaigh - ''devotee of Saint Ceallaigh'' - was a member of the Uí Fiachrach Aidhne of south Galway, and was a six-time grea ...
, fl. 10th century, ancestor of Kilkelly clan of Galway. *
Padhraic Mac Giolla Chealla Padhraic Mac Giolla Chealla, Irish poet and storyteller, . Mac Giolla Chealla was a local poet who made a well-known prediction, of many years standing, "that the French were to come into Killala on the day of the Fair of Turloughmore." ''B ...
,
poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
and seanchai, fl. 1798.


References

1962 births Living people Kiltormer hurlers Galway inter-county hurlers Connacht inter-provincial hurlers All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners 20th-century Irish sportsmen {{Galway-hurling-bio-stub