Declan Lally

Declan Lally is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays at left half forward for the Dublin county team, and has won five Leinster titles and one All-Ireland title. His underage record includes the Leinster under-21 finals of 2002 and 2003, in which he scored goals against Wicklow and Longford, the second being the first time since 1974-75 that Dublin won back-to-back Leinster under-21 titles, followed by the 2003 All-Ireland under-21 title. At Dublin City University he was player of the match in the winning 2006 Sigerson Cup final, and in 2006 he was on the Dublin side that beat Offaly in the Leinster Senior Football Championship and on the Leinster team that beat Connacht in the Railway Cup in Boston. He also won the 2008 O'Byrne Cup with Dublin, took a break from inter-county football in 2008 to travel, played club football for McAnespies in Boston, and later returned to Ireland to win an All-Ireland with Dublin.