Chris Conway | |
Irish: | Criostóir Ó Conbhuí |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Code: | Football |
County: | Laois |
Province: | Leinster |
Clposition: | Centre forward |
Club: | Arles/Kilcruise |
Clcounty: | 1 |
Clprovince: | 0 |
Clubs: | Arles/Kilcruise |
Counties: | Laois |
Icposition: | Corner forward |
Icyears: | To 2007 |
Icprovince: | 1 |
Birth Place: | County Laois |
Chris Conway is a Gaelic football coach and player from County Laois.[1] [2]
He plays for the Arles-Kilcruise club. He formerly played at centre forward for Laois and in 2003 was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title[1] for the first time since 1946,[3] before departing the inter-county scene after the 2006 season.
Conway emerged on to the scene in 1996 as part of the Laois minor team that won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship title.[1]
In 2003 his club Arles-Kilcruise won the Laois Senior Football Championship title under the captaincy of his brother, Paudge.
Conway also had a coaching role with Knockbeg College, where he is a schoolteacher, and guided his "alma mater" to a 2005 All-Ireland Senior Colleges title.
Conway finished his inter-county career with the Laois football team at the end of the 2007 season.
He joined the Laois backroom team as a coach (alongside Brian "Beano" McDonald) under the management of Billy Sheehan, who was appointed manager in October 2021.[4] [5]