Declan Rooney

Irish Gaelic footballer

Declan Rooney (born 1983/1984) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played in the 2010 All-Ireland Final. He is a defender.^[1]

A Burren stalwart, he won a Down Senior Football Championship medal in 2010 when his club won that competition for the first since 1997.^[2] He won another in 2018, after turning 34 (he missed the 2011 county championship because of going over on his ankle).^[2] His carpentry work brought him to Dublin, and in 2013 he joined the St Sylvester's club; while there he was nursing a shoulder injury but held Dublin senior player Diarmuid Connolly scoreless when he made a substitute appearance at half-time against St Vincents in a Dublin Senior Football Championship quarter-final, Vincents winning the game by a point and later lifting the 2013–14 All-Ireland (Andy Merrigan Cup) title.^[3]

References

^ "Down defender switches club allegiance". Hogan Stand. 18 April 2013.
^ ^a ^b Loughran, Neil (2 November 2018). "Burren stalwart Declan Rooney looks towards Ulster after Down triumph". The Irish News.
^ "Down's Rooney teams up with Syls". Irish Independent. 19 April 2013.

Down – 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 B. McVeigh
2 D. McCartan
3 D. Gordon
4 D. Rafferty
5 D. Rooney
6 K. McKernan
7 C. Garvey
8 P. Fitzpatrick
9 K. King
10 D. Hughes
11 M. Poland
12 B. Coulter (c)
13 P. McComiskey
14 J. Clarke
15 M. Clarke

Sub used: 25 C. Maginn for J. Clarke; 20 B. MacArdle for D. Rafferty; 29 A. Branagan for K. King; 30 C. Laverty for M. Poland; 27 R. Murtagh for P. McComiskey

Subs not used: D. Alder; A. Carr; J. Colgan; L. Howard; D. O'Hagan; M. Doran; A. Rodgers; R. Sexton; J. Browne; G. McArdle; K. Anderson; A. McArdle; P. Devlin; K. Duffin; L. Lennon; C. Murdock