Cathal Daly is aGaelic football coach and former player forTullamore and theOffaly county team. He is a former Offalycaptain.[1]
Daly won aLeinster Senior Football Championship title in 1997 and aNational Football League title in1998.[2] With his club he won threeOffaly Senior Football Championships: 2000, 2002 and 2007.[2][3]
He played in a defensive position.[2]Offaly was the first to achieve anAll Star Award representing every number (1–15) in both codes when Daly received his #4 All Star Award in 1997.[2][4] It was also Offaly's first football All Star since 1983.[5]
Daly is a member of theGarda Síochána.[5] As of 2006, he was stationed inCastlecomer.[6] He retired as a player in 2009 and later took up coaching.[2] He was involved with his club in this capacity in 2024, when Tullamore won a first set of consecutive Offaly SFC titles since 1926.[4] He has also worked with the Offaly minor football team.[5]