Jonny Cooper

Jonny Cooper (Jonathan Cooper, born 4 November 1989) is a dual player who predominantly plays Gaelic football for the Na Fianna club and formerly played for the Dublin county football team. He played hurling at schoolboy and minor level, winning an All-Ireland A hurling medal with Dublin Colleges in 2006 and the Leinster Minor Hurling Championship the year after. He first played football under manager Jim Gavin at under-21 level, captained the 2010 Dublin under-21 football team when Gavin was manager, and was reckoned to be one of Gavin's most trusted players when Gavin managed the county team. After shoulder surgery in March 2011 he played only a few games for Dublin in 2012 under Pat Gilroy, who later dropped him. He is the youngest of four children and a grandnephew of Simon Deignan, who played in the Polo Grounds final of 1947.