Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Brian Lacey | |
Irish: | Briain Ó Laitheasa |
County: | Kildare |
Province: | Leinster |
Club: | Arravale Rovers Round Towers |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Counties: | Tipperary Kildare Tipperary |
Icposition: | Right corner-back |
Icyears: | 1995-1997 1998-2004 2005-2006 |
Icprovince: | 2 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Allstars: | 1 |
Icupdate: | 16:43, 3 August 2015 |
Birth Date: | 1974 |
Birth Place: | Tipperary, Ireland |
Brian Lacey (born 1974) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played as a right corner-back for the Tipperary and Kildare senior teams.[1] [2]
Born in Tipperary, Lacey first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor hurling team before later joining the under-21 football side. He joined the senior football panel during the 1995 championship. Lacey immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen before later joining the Kildare senior team. Throughout his career he won two Leinster medals and one Tommy Murphy Cup medal.
Lacey was a member of the Munster and Leinster inter-provincial teams on a number of occasions. At club level he is a two-time championship medallist with Round Towers. He began his career with Arravale Rovers.
Lacey retired from inter-county football following the conclusion of the 2006 championship.
He is a brother of former rugby union player and current referee John Lacey.