Colm Browne was a Gaelic footballer and manager with Laois. He also managed the Tipperary senior football team.

Browne won numerous honours in the game including an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship with his club Portlaoise in 1983, a National Football League title with Laois in 1986 (and captaining that team) and an All Stars Award in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

Browne is a member of the Garda Síochána at Templemore.^{[citation needed]}

He was ratified as manager of the Laois senior team in 2000 and left in 2002.^[1]^[2]

References

^ O'Riordan, Ian (25 August 2000). "Laois look to Browne". The Irish Times. The Laois County Board has ratified Colm Browne as senior football manager
^ Shortt, James (8 July 2002). "Brown[sic] quits as Laois manager". RTÉ.

Sporting positions Preceded byRichie Connor Laois Senior Football Manager 1994–1996 Succeeded byMick Dempsey Preceded byTom Cribbin Laois Senior Football Manager 2001–2002 Succeeded byMick O'Dwyer

J. Mulvihill (1985–90)
M. Niblock (1990–91)
S. McCarthy (1991–96)
P. Morrissey (1996–97)
C. Browne (1997–99)
C. O'Flaherty (1999–00)
T. McGlinchey (2000–03)
A. Shortall (2003–04)
S. McCarthy (2004–06)
J. Owens (2006–07)
J. Evans (2007–12)
P. Creedon (2012–15)
L. Kearns (2015–19)
D. Power (2019–23)
P. Kelly (2023–)

U-20/U-21

Under-21 (1964–2017)	S. McCarthy (1985–88) C. O'Flaherty (1988–91) N. Byrne (1991–94) J. Cummins (1994–96) D. Ryan (1996–97) S. McCarthy (1997–99) W. Moloney (1999–01) J. Cummins (2001–03) S. McCarthy (2005–06) P. Creedon (2006–08) J. Evans (2008–12) D. Power (2012–14) T. Toomey (2014–16) D. Browne (2016–17)
Under-20 (2018–present)	D. Power (2017–18) T. McGlinchey (2018–20/1?) P. Christie (2021–)

Minor
T. Kirwan (2000–01) T. O'Connor (2001–03) P. Creedon (2003–06) P. Ryan (2006–08) D. Power (2008–12) C. McGeever (2012–2015) T. Toomey (2015–?) M. O'Doherty (2017–?) P. Creedon (2018–)

Junior
B. Guiry (1985–86) W. Robinson (1986–88) J. Mulvihill (1988–90) W. Robinson (1990–95) C. O'Dwyer (1995–96) P. Morrissey (1996–97) S. McCarthy (1997–03) L. Molloy (2003–05) C. O'Dwyer (2005–07) P. Savage (2007–09) T. Toomey (2009–11) J. O'Meara (2011–13) D. Power (2013–14) T. Toomey (2014–)

B. Miller (1987–89)
R. Connor (1989–93)
C. Browne (1993–96)
M. Dempsey (1996–98)
T. Cribbin (1998–2000)
C. Browne (2000–02)
M. O'Dwyer (2002–06)
L. Kearns (2006–08)
S. Dempsey (2008–10)
J. McNulty (2010–13)
T. Ó Flatharta (2013–15)
M. Lillis (2015–16)
P. Creedon (2016–17)
J. Sugrue (2017–19)
M. Quirke (2019–21)
B. Sheehan (2021–23)
J. McNulty (2023–-)

v t e Laois – 1986 National Football League Champions (2nd title)
1 M. Conroy 2 P. Dunne 3 M. Dempsey 4 E. Kelly 5 M. Aherne 6 P. Brophy 7 C. Browne (capt) 8 J. Costello 9 L. Irwin 10 G. Browne 11 W. Brennan 12 T. Prendergast 13 M. Dempsey 14 E. Whelan 15 C. Maguire Subs N. Prendergast B. Nerney G. Lawlor Manager K. Brennan

v t e 1986 All Star Gaelic Football Team
1 C. Nelligan 2 H. Keegan 3 M. Lyons 4 J. Lynch 5 T. Doyle 6 T. Spillane 7 C. Browne 8 P. Donaghy 9 L. Irwin 10 R. McCarron 11 E. McKenna 12 P. Spillane 13 M. Sheehy 14 D. O'Hagan 15 G. Power

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