Ollie Reilly | |
Irish: | Oilibhéar Ó Raghallaigh |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Code: | Football |
County: | Louth |
Province: | Leinster |
Club: | Hunterstown Rovers |
Clcounty: | 0 |
Counties: | Louth |
Icyears: | 1955-1962 |
Icposition: | Right corner-back |
Icprovince: | 1 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Birth Place: | Ardee, County Louth, Ireland |
Death Place: | Ardee, County Louth, Ireland |
Birth Date: | 1936 |
Death Date: | 4 April 2009 (aged 72) |
Oliver Reilly (1936 – 4 April 2009) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team lasted seven seasons from 1955 until 1962.[1]
Born in Ardee, County Louth, Reilly was raised in a strong Gaelic football household. His father, Stephen Reilly, won a Leinster medal with the Louth junior team in 1912.
Reilly first played competitive Gaelic football with the Hunterstown Rovers club. He won a county minor championship medal in 1954 before later joining the club's adult team. Reilly won a county junior championship medal in 1959.
Reilly made his first appearance on the inter-county scene as a member of the Louth minor team in 1954. He later joined the Louth junior team before making his senior debut during the 1955-56 league. Over the following seven seasons Reilly enjoyed much success, culminating with the winning of a set of All-Ireland and Leinster medals in 1957. A gall stones operation hastened his retirement from inter-county Gaelic football in 1962. He is the father of Hollywood film director Fergal Reilly.