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Darren Rooney Personal information Irish name Darren Ó Ruanaidh Sport Dual player Football Position: Right Half Back Hurling Position: - Born Laois, Ireland Club(s) Years Club Apps (scores) 1996-2008
1996-2008Clonaslee-St.Manmans (F)
Clonaslee-St.Manmans (H)? Inter-county(ies) Years County Apps (scores) - Laois (F)
Laois (H)? Inter-county titles Football Hurling Leinster Titles 1 - Darren Rooney is a gaelic football and hurling player from Laois in Ireland. His dual status makes him most unusual in the modern GAA.
He currently plays for the Parnells club in Dublin. He usually plays at right half back or full back for the Laois senior football team and in 2003 was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946. Rooney was a member of the Laois minor team that retained the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1997.
External links
- The Times interview
- http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/in-brief-rooney-new-laois-football-captain-1278531.html
Laois - All Ireland Minor Football Champions 1997 (2nd title) 1 M. Leigh • 2 P. McDonald • 3 E. Bland • 4 T. Mulligan • 5 D. Mullins • 6 J. Higgins • 7 J.P. Kehoe • 8 B. Fitzpatrick • 9 D. Rooney • 10 M. Lambe • 11 S. Kelly • 12 T. Kelly • 13 K. Kelly • 14 B. McDonald • 15 M. Hovendon •
Categories:- Laois Gaelic footballers
- Laois hurlers
- Clonaslee-St.Manmans Gaelic footballers
- Clonaslee-St.Manmans hurlers
- Parnells Gaelic footballers
- Living people
- Leinster Gaelic football biography stubs
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