David Hickey (Gaelic footballer)

David Hickey is a former Gaelic footballer and selector with the Dublin county team who also played semi-professional rugby union. With Dublin he played as a wing-forward, first featuring for the county at the age of 17. He appeared in six consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals during the 1970s, winning three of them, in 1974, 1976 and 1977, and received two All-Stars, in 1974 and 1976. He also won two National Football League medals with Dublin, in 1976 and 1978. After Offaly ended Dublin's run in 1980 he joined the French club Stade Rochelais, where he played full-back. Away from sport he is a consultant urologist and director of transplantation at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, and the Irish Independent has described him as one of the world's most eminent transplant surgeons.