Dermot Earley Snr

Lieutenant-General Dermot Earley DSM (24 February 1948 to 23 June 2010) was an Irish military officer and a Gaelic footballer who played for Roscommon. In the Defence Forces he served with the United Nations in several roles and rose to Chief of Staff from 2007 to 2010. In football he made his senior debut for Roscommon in 1965 at seventeen, won five Connacht senior football titles between 1972 and 1980, received two All Star awards, won an All-Ireland under-21 medal in 1966, and lined out in the 1980 All-Ireland final, which Kerry won. He retired from inter-county football in 1985 at thirty-seven and is Roscommon's top scorer in National Football League history. He later managed Roscommon and Kildare, and his brother Paul and son Dermot Jnr were also Gaelic footballers.