Paddy Kelly: ‘Everyone was pissed off at what Cork GAA has become’

An elegant playmaker, Paddy Kelly has retired from Gaelic football with one All-Ireland senior medal. But he wanted more and rather than look back, he is angry about Cork’s future and what he sees as apathy engulfing the county...

And you thought for a while there that he was another one who was going to just slip away quietly.

As the playmaker on the last team to bring an All-Ireland to Leeside in September, Paddy Kelly has earned the right to be termed a Rebel but he could hardly be classified from his playing days as some kind of dissident or troublemaker.