Joe O'Connor (Gaelic footballer)
Appearance
Joe O'Connor is a Gaelic footballer. He plays for the Austin Stacks club in midfield and at senior level for the Kerry county team.
Though he never started a game for Kerry, O'Connor was named senior captain for the 2022 season (replacing Paul Murphy), in a year when Kerry won the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.[1] and was injured.[2][3][4][5] He formerly played rugby with Munster.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ O'Kane, Karl (2 February 2022). "Joe O'Connor named Kerry captain despite never starting game for Kingdom".
- ^ O'Halloran, Rob (13 September 2022). "Huge blow as Kerry's All-Ireland winning captain suffers long-term injury".
- ^ Kissane, Sinead (21 October 2022). "Kerry captain Joe O'Connor admits he's likely to miss out on All-Ireland defence". Irish Independent.
- ^ "Kerry's Joe O'Connor set for lengthy absence due to ACL injury". The42.ie. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Kerry captain Joe O'Connor suffers ACL injury and will likely miss 2023 intercounty season". Sky Sports. 14 September 2022.
- ^ Collins, Martin (2 February 2022). "Joe O'Connor is 2022 Kerry Captain". Austin Stacks.