Des Newton is an Irish former Gaelic footballer and manager who played for the Roscommon and Donegal county teams from the 1970s until the 1990s. With Roscommon he won three Connacht Senior Football Championship titles and an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship in 1978. He also added an Ulster Senior Football Championship with Donegal in 1983, when manager Brian McEniff turned to him, then living in Inishowen, as a replacement for the injured Matt Gallagher. After playing he moved into coaching and management, working for several years with the Dublin clubs Kilmacud Crokes and St Jude's as a selector and manager, and in 2011 he was appointed manager of the Roscommon senior team, a post he left after the 2012 season.
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is an Irish former Gaelic footballer and manager
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who played for the Roscommon and Donegal county teams
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who played for the Roscommon and Donegal county teams
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