# Rohan Connolly

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{{Short description|Australian journalist (born 1965)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2010}}
'''Rohan Connolly''' (born 1965) is an Australian journalist specialising in [Australian rules football](/source/Australian_rules_football) writing for ''[The Age](/source/The_Age)''. Connolly began his media career writing for ''[The Sun News-Pictorial](/source/The_Sun_News-Pictorial)'' in 1983 before moving to ''The Age'' in 1987, where he stayed until 2017. Connolly also appeared on radio station [3AW](/source/3AW)'s [AFL](/source/Australian_Football_League) coverage as a [boundary rider](/source/boundary_rider) and in other on-air roles until the end of 2011, after which he joined [1116 SEN](/source/1116_SEN).

In 2008, he won the AFL Media Award for the Most Outstanding Feature Writer.<ref>[http://footystats.freeservers.com/Archive/D-08-R24.html 2008 Australian Football Media Awards]</ref>  Annually between 2002 and 2005 he co-authored with [Jim Main](/source/Jim_Main) the updated version of the reference book ''More Than a Century of AFL Grand Finals''.<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17548030 National Library of Australia catalogue listing]</ref>

Connolly runs the [http://footyology.com.au/ footyology.com.au] website.<ref>{{Cite web |title=footyology.com.au |url=http://footyology.com.au/}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=715 The Age profile]

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