Dermot Deasy

Dermot Deasy, born in August 1960, is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Dublin county team. He won an All Star for Dublin in 1993, won the National Football League and the Leinster Senior Football Championship, and lost the semi-final to the eventual All-Ireland winners Derry. Although injury kept him out of the 1995 All-Ireland final, he won an All-Ireland medal as a member of the Dublin panel. He won Dublin Senior Football Championship medals with Ballymun Kickhams in 1982 and 1985, the first under his captaincy. He first played Gaelic football at Sacred Heart BNS in Ballygall and then at St Kevin's Secondary School, where his class and school team-mates included the Dublin stars Barney Rock, Gerry Hargan, John Kearns and Anto McCaul, who formed the backbone of the Ballymun Kickhams side.