{{Short description|Irish Gaelic and Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox Gaelic games player | image = | name = Brian Shortall | irish = | nickname = "Shorts"{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} | birth_date = | birth_place = | height = | weight = | county = Laois | occupation = | code = Football | sport = Gaelic Football | province = Leinster | club = The Harps GAA<br> South Dublin Eagles | clyears = | counties = Laois | icyears = | icapps(points) = | icprovince = | icposition = Half-forward | icallireland = | nfl = | allstars = }}
'''Brian "Shorts" Shortall''' is a former Laois minor Gaelic footballer and Australian rules footballer.
==Playing career== Shortall is a native of Durrow, County Laois, who played his club football with The Harps GAA and represented Laois GAA at minor level, winning a Leinster MFC medal in 1998, before losing to a Tyrone team led by Cormac McAnallen in the All-Ireland MFC final.<ref>High Ball magazine, Vol 5 Issue 7 Page 61, August 2002. {{ISSN|1393-6158}}</ref> He played in all six games for the Ireland national Australian rules football team, that won the 2002 Australian Football International Cup.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aussierulesinternational.com/home/tournaments/international-cup/2002/teamlists |title=Teamlists |accessdate=2012-02-29 |url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728093415/http://www.aussierulesinternational.com/home/tournaments/international-cup/2002/teamlists |archivedate=2008-07-28 |df= }}</ref>
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