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'''Colm Ó Snodaigh''' (born 22 May 1966) is a member of the traditional Irish folk group [[Kíla]]. He is also a writer and a former sportsman, winning honours in [[Association Football|football]], [[hurling]] and [[tennis]].

==Personal life==

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Ó Snodaigh was born in Dublin and reared on the south side of [[Dublin]] near [[Sandymount]], he is a native Irish speaker and was educated at both [[Scoil Lorcáin]] and [[Coláiste Eoin]]. He completed a degree in Physiotherapy at [[University College Dublin]] in 1988.

He is the son of Irish language publisher and author [[Pádraig Ó Snodaigh]] and artist Cliodhna Cussen. His brothers are Fergus, [[Aengus Ó Snodaigh|Aengus]], Cormac, [[Rónán Ó Snodaigh|Rónán]] and Rossa. His great uncle Dennis Cussen ran in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, in the 100 yards competition, held the world record for fastest time over 100 yards on grass for a time and also played rugby for Ireland 15 times scoring a famous hat-trick of tries against England in 1926.

==Music==

Ó Snodaigh plays the flute, tin whistle, guitar, saxophone and percussion. He also sings with the group [[Kíla]] and released a solo album titled ''Giving'' in 2007 where he sings on all the tracks. The album is a mixture of Colm's own compositions written in both Irish and English and was produced by Shay Fitzgerald. He released another album in 1990 of 10 acoustic pop songs in Irish, entitled Éist.

He is currently working on his follow-up to ''Giving''.

==Writing==

Ó Snodaigh has written one book of short stories entitled ''Turasóireacht'' (Tripping/Tourism) which was published in 1995 by [[Coiscéim]]. Subsequent stories have been published in the anthologies ''Scéalta ón Aer'' (2000) ag Cathal Póirtéir and in ''Lón Léitheoireacht 2'' (2008). His début novella ''Pat the Pipe – Píobaire'' (piper) was published in 2007 and a translation of Sandy Fitzgerald's children's story ''Céal & an Buachaill Gorm'' (Cale & the Blue Boy) was published in early 2008. He wrote a monthly article on music for online magazine Beo.ie from 2006 to 2011 and these articles formed the basis of a collection of essays on music in a book called ''Istigh sa Cheol'' (2013). One of the articles ''An Ghaoth Aneas'' was included in the New Island publication ''Sunday Miscellany – A Selection from 2006 to 2008'' following its broadcast in 2008 on [[RTÉ Radio 1]]. This same article was included, along with a sister article ''Ag Máirseáil i dTreo na Gréine'', as a tribute to Pádraig Ó Cléirigh, in a posthumous collection of Pádraig's short stories published by Coiscéím in 2010, entitled ''An Bhréag & Scéalta Eile''. In 2017 his book on a campaign of civil disobedience in the west Kerry Gaeltacht, Dún Chaoin was published [[Dún Chaoin - Oscail an Scoil]].

==Sport==

===Football===

After periods with [[Shamrock Rovers F.C.|Shamrock Rovers]], [[Shelbourne F.C.|Shelbourne]] and [[University College Dublin A.F.C.]], Ó Snodaigh was a squad member of the successful [[Bray Wanderers A.F.C.|Bray Wanderers]] side that won the 1989–90 [[FAI Cup]] in at [[Lansdowne Road]] with a 3–0 victory against [[St Francis F.C.|St Francis]], lost in the [[1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup|European Cup Winners Cup]] tie against [[Trabzonspor]], and finished runners-up in the [[1990–91 League of Ireland First Division]]. {{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} That same year he was a central member of Wanderers reserve side that finished runners-up in the [[League of Ireland B Division]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} He won the B team player of the year award in 1990 and was a member of the first team that lost the [[LFA President's Cup]] final 3–1 against [[Dundalk F.C.|Dundalk]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://leagueofirelandhistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/presidents-day/|title=President’s Day|date=2014-03-02|work=League of Ireland History|access-date=2018-08-27|language=en-US}}</ref>

In time, he left Bray and became a member of [[Leinster Senior League (association football)|Leinster Senior League]] side Pegasus where, over a seven-year period, he was a member of their [[FAI Intermediate Cup]] winning team in 1992 against [[Bluebell United F.C.|Bluebell United]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ierintermediatecuphist.html|title=Ireland - FA Intermediate Cup Winners and Runners-Up|website=www.rsssf.com|access-date=2018-08-27}}</ref> top scorer in 1996/7, selected for the Leinster Senior League selection team in 1992, was captain of the side that got relegated from the senior division in 1997 following a defeat away to Bluebell{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} and played in every position for the side except goalkeeper.

===Hurling===

Following retirement from soccer, due largely to a serious knee injury, Ó Snodaigh, at the behest of his brother, Rossa, joined the St Kevin's Junior C hurling team. In two seasons, he helped them win the Junior C Dublin Shield twice and the league once. In his second season, he scored many goals. He mostly played at right or left full forward.

===Tennis===

He played tennis for twenty years at the [[Sandymount]] tennis club, Claremont and latterly Claremont/Railway Union. He played Class 2 for the senior team, in the summer league and won the U19 singles title.

== References ==

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==External links==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120324090235/http://www.kila.ie/detail.php?category_id=3&sub_category_1_id=27&sub_category_2_id=26 Biography on Kila's website]

*[http://www.beat102103.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=470&Itemid=92 Interview on Beat 102/103 FM 2007]

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