Tommy Carr

Tommy Carr
Personal information
Irish name	Tomás Ó Carra
Sport	Gaelic Football
Position	Right Half Back
Born	(1961-05-02) 2 May 1961 Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Lucan Sarsfields
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
	Dublin
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	5
All-Irelands	1
NFL	2
All Stars	1

Tommy Carr is a former inter-county Gaelic football player for Dublin. He has also managed Dublin, Roscommon and Cavan. He was awarded an all star in 1991 in the same year that he won a National Football League medal with Dublin. He won his second league medal with Dublin in 1993. ^[1]

Managerial career

Carr was the Dublin manager between 1999 and 2001, a period that proved an unsuccessful period for Dublin. During this era controversial player Dessie Farrell was the captain of the Dublin football team until Carr was replaced by Tommy Lyons.

Carr went on to manage Roscommon between 2002 and 2005,^[2] and was the appointed manager of Cavan in 2008.

He left the job as Cavan manager in July 2010.^[3]

In 2011 he was made manager of the Westmeath minor team.

Personal life

Tommy's brother Declan Carr played senior hurling with Tipperary, winning 2 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship titles in 1989 and 1991.

References

↑ "Tommy Carr quits as Cavan manager". RTÉ Sport. 2010-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
↑ "Val Daly to take temporary charge". Roscommon Herald. 2005-03-23. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
↑ "Tommy Carr quits as Cavan manager". RTÉ Sport. 2010-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-17.

Preceded by Mickey Whelan	Dublin Senior Football Manager 1997-2001	Succeeded by Tommy Lyons

Dublin Football Squads

Dublin – 1991 National Football League Champions (7th title)

1 J. O'Leary 2 M. Deegan 3 C. Walsh 4 M. Kennedy 5 T. Carr 6 K. Barr 7 E. Heery 8 D. Foran 9 P. Clarke 10 C. Redmond 11 P. Curran 12 N. Guiden 13 J. Sheedy 14 V. Murphy 15 D. McCarthy Subs M. Galvin K. Duff Manager P. Cullen

Dublin – 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 J. O'Leary 2 M. Deegan 3 G. Hargan 4 T. Carr 5 P. Curran 6 K. Barr 7 E. Heery 8 P. Clarke 9 D. Foran 10 C. Redmond 11 J. Sheedy 12 N. Guiden 13 D. Farrell 14 V. Murphy 15 M. Galvin

Dublin – 1993 National Football League Champions (8th title)

1 J. O'Leary 2 C. Walsh 3 D. Deasy 4 P. Moran 5 E. Heery\| 6 P. Curran 7 M. Deegan 8 J. Sheedy 9 P. Bealin 10 J. Gavin 11 T. Carr 12 N. Guiden 13 P. Clarke 14 V. Murphy 15 M. Doran Manager P. O'Neill

Awards

1991 All Star Gaelic Football Team

1 M. McQuillan 2 M. Deegan 3 C. Deegan 4 E. Gavin 5 T. Carr 6 K. Barr 7 M. O'Connell 8 B. Breen 9 M. Lynch 10 R. Carr 11 G. Blaney 12 T. Dowd 13 C. O'Rourke 14 B. Stafford 15 B. Flynn

Dublin senior football team – managers

Kevin Heffernan (1974–76) T. Hanahoe (1976–78) Kevin Heffernan (1978–85) B. Mullins-R. Kelleher-S. Doherty (1986) G. McCaul (1986–90) P. Cullen (1990–92) P. O'Neill (1992–95) M. Whelan (1995–97) T. Carr (1997–01) T. Lyons (2001–04) P. Caffrey (2004–08) P. Gilroy (2008–12) J. Gavin (2012–present)

Roscommon senior football team – managers

D. Earley (1992–94) D. Shine (1994–97) G. Sheerin (1997–00) J. Tobin (2000–02) T. Carr (2002–05) Val Daly (2005) J. Maughan (2005–08) P. Earley (2008) M. Ryan (2008) F. O'Donnell (2008–11) D. Newton (2011–12) J. Evans (2012–15)

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