Cathal Kelly is a Canadian columnist for The Globe and Mail."Cathal Kelly's memoir Boy Wonders wins $15K Leacock Medal for humour writing". CBC Books, May 6, 2019. He won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2019 for his childhood memoir Boy Wonders."Cathal Kelly wins Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
Kelly was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, to immigrant parents from Ireland.Gerald Flood, "Nostalgic memoir a marvel". Winnipeg Free Press, November 10, 2018. He studied political science at the University of Toronto and journalism at Ryerson University, before joining the Toronto Star as a copy editor in the early 2000s."Prize Fighters: Sports sections are on the ropes, but columnists with distinctive voices are still throwing punches". Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 2015. He began writing for the paper as a beat reporter covering the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as writing some automobile and travel journalism, before becoming a full-time sports columnist in 2010."Racism back on soccer's front burner". Toronto Star, February 3, 2005. He was hired by The Globe and Mail in 2014.
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