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Kieran Kelly (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 in 1978. Kelly achieved his first Cheltenham horseracing 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 a life supply machine in Beaumont Hospital in north Dublin. He died in 12 August 2003, aged 25.
