Kieran Kelly

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Kieran Kelly (25 June 1978 – 12 August 2003) was a top Irish jump jockey who died as a result of a racing accident.

Kelly was born in County Kildare and achieved his first Cheltenham Festival success in March 2003 on Hardy Eustace in the Royal & SunAlliance Novices' Hurdle.

He was critically injured in a fall in early August 2003 and remained for a week on life support in Beaumont Hospital in north Dublin. He died at the age of 25.