Early Life
Kennelly was born in Listowel in 1981 to mother Nuala and father Tim Kennelly, a former All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner with Kerry. In Australia, Kennelly's first name, Tadhg in the Irish language, is often mispronounced as "Tie" or misspelt Tadgh, but is in fact correctly pronounced quite similarly to the first three letters of tiger and spelt with the h before the g.
Tadhg grew up playing Gaelic football and was recognised as a highly talented underage player with Kerry GAA.
His underage achievements include being on the Kerry underage squads that won the Munster Minor Football Championships in 1997 & 1998 and Munster U21 Championship in 1999.
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