Declan Rooney

Declan Rooney is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played in the 2010 [All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|2010 All-Ireland Final]. He is a defender.
A Burren stalwart, he won a Down [Senior Football Championship] medal in 2010 when his club won that competition for the first since 1997. He won another in 2018, after turning 34. 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 [county football team|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 Senior [Club Football Championship|2013–14 All-Ireland (Andy Merrigan Cup)] title.