Padraig Dully

Padraig Dully
Personal information
Full name	Padraig Dully
Date of birth	20 April 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth	Athlone, Ireland
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1985–1990	Athlone Town
1990–1995	Shelbourne
1995	Cliftonville
1995–1996	Shamrock Rovers
1995–1996	Bohemians
1996	→ Crusaders (loan)
1996–1997	→ Longford Town (loan)
1997–1999	Waterford United
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Padraig Dully (born 20 April 1965) is an Irish retired footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s.

Career

Dully's career began with Athlone Town and he made his League of Ireland debut on 20 October 1985 at home to Cork City. His first League of Ireland goal came a fortnight later in a 1–0 home win over Shelbourne.

In the 1989/90 season he finished as Athlone's top scorer with 10 league goals. His impressive form earned him a move to Shelbourne in the close season of 1990, where he played the best football of his career. It was certainly the most rewarding period of his footballing travels. In 1992, he won the league with

1992-93 UEFA Champions League.^[1]

Dully was man of the match in the 1993

Cork City and Bohemians

. The first series of matches failed to produce a conclusive winner, but the second series did, with Cork pipping Bohs into second.

Dully's career then took a turn for the worse - a serious knee injury almost ended his playing days, in fact he was out of the game for a year. Despite making a full recovery, he was unable to get back into the Shelbourne first team.

He signed for Shamrock Rovers on 26 October 1995 for an undisclosed fee.^[2] He made his debut at home in a win over Derry City on the 29th but Rovers struggled and midway through the season manager Ray Treacy was sacked so after a total of 13 appearances Dully to move to Bohemians,^[3] where he scored on his League debut against Dundalk. Having played 11 League matches for Rovers, scoring 3 goals, that season, he went on to notch up 11 more with the Dalymount Park outfit.

Padraig was loaned out to

Waterford United

manager Tommy Lynch.

After

Aaron Callaghan resigned as Athlone Town manager in May 2004 Dully stepped in as caretaker manager.^[5]

The following season Dully was assistant manager at Athlone Town to Stephen Kelly. When Kelly stepped down in July 2005, Dully resigned too.