Peter Creedon is a

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by ki ...

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

. He is originally from

Rosscarbery Rosscarbery () is a village and census town in County Cork, Ireland. The village is on a shallow estuary, which opens onto Rosscarbery Bay. Rosscarbery is in the Cork South-West (Dáil Éireann) constituency, which has three seats. History The ...

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns ar ...

. He has managed two county teams:

Tipperary Tipperary is the name of: Places *County Tipperary, a county in Ireland **North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh **South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel *Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...

and

Laois County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 ...

Early life

Creedon worked as the principal of St Ailbe's School in

Tipperary Town Tipperary Town (; ) is a town and a civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. Its population was 4,979 at the 2016 census. It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the historical baro ...

and lives in

Thurles Thurles (; ''Durlas Éile'') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Eliogarty and in the ecclesiastical parish of Thurles. The cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdi ...

. He is a former coach of the

Cahir Cahir (; ) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West. Location and access For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dubl ...

senior football team and of his former local team Roscarbery, and was in charge of the Tipperary minor and under-21 football teams from 2003 to 2008.

Tipperary

Creedon managed the Tipperary senior football team, appointed on 28 March 2012 before leaving in July 2015. He took over from John Evans, who resigned on 18 March after Tipperary's defeat to

Sligo Sligo ( ; ga, Sligeach , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2016, it is the List of urban areas ...

in the Allianz League. After

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defeated Tipp in the 2013 Championship Creedon called for the introduction of an All-Ireland 'B' Championship. He left the Tipperary job in July 2015 due to time constraints as he had become school principal of Coláiste Dún Iascaigh in

Laois

In September 2016, Creedon took over as the manager of the Laois senior football team on a two-year contract. In July 2017, Creedon stepped down as Laois manager after one year in charge.

Since

In October 2018, he was appointed manager of the Tipperary minor team. In October 2021, he was appointed manager of the Tipperary ladies'.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Creedon, Peter Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Carbery Rangers Gaelic footballers Gaelic football managers Gaelic games players from County Cork Heads of schools in Ireland Ladies' Gaelic football managers People from Rosscarbery