Tom Randles (hurler)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Born | Kilgarvan, County Kerry | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
1950's-1980's | Kilgarvan | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Kerry titles | 2 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| Kerry | |||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 0 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
Tom Randles is a hurler from Kilgarvan County Kerry. He played hurling Kilgarvan in the 1950s up to the 1980s, Winning County Championships in 1956 and 1958. In 2008, he made headlines by playing a full 60-minute match for Kilgarvan at the age of 71, 50 years after winning his last county championship. He also played football with Kilgarvan.
Politics
Randles unsuccessfully ran for election to Kerry County Council in the Killarney area on 4 different occasions, initially as a Fine Gael candidate in 1979 and 1985 and as an Independent in 1999 and 2004. Randles also ran in the November 1982 Irish general election for Fine Gael as a running mate to then TD Michael Begley in the constituency of Kerry South, he was again unsuccessful polling a distant 5th in the 3 seat constituency with 2.7% of the vote.
References
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