Ger Reidy (Gaelic footballer)

Ger Reidy (Irish: Gearóid Ó Riada)^{[citation needed]} is a former Gaelic footballer who, between 2009 and 2010, was a member of the Kerry senior football team. At club level, he was a goalkeeper for Castleisland Desmonds.

Reidy made his intercounty debut in a National League fixture versus Donegal in Austin Stack Park, Tralee. He went on to play in 3 further matches in Kerry's ultimately successful 2009 Allianz National Football League Division 1 campaign against Derry, Westmeath and Galway conceding only one goal (to Galway).^[1]

For Kerry's 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship campaign, he was substitute goalkeeper and although he made no appearance, as a member of the winning squad, he gained his first All Ireland Senior Football medal.

Following the retirement of Diarmuid Murphy, Reidy was tipped as a front runner for the No 1 shirt and started out the year by winning a McGrath Cup medal when Kerry overcame UCC in the final.^{[citation needed]} He lined out for Kerry against Dublin in the opening match of the 2010 NFL campaign. However, on 10 March 2010, he announced his resignation from the Kerry squad.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2010, Reidy was part of the Castleisland Desmonds squad who would go on to win RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoir competition, beating Ballymun Kickhams in the final at Parnell Park, Dublin.^[2]

In 2012, Reidy was goalkeeper for Kingdom Kerry Gaels, a Senior London side based in the north of the city. He was a member of the squad that lost the London Senior Football Final in Ruislip against rivals Tir Chonaill Gaels.^[3] He later played for Castleisland Desmonds in County Kerry.^{[citation needed]}