Tom Randles (hurler)
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.
| 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 | ||
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.