Martin McDermott

Martin 'Marty' McDermott is a former Gaelic footballer and team manager who played for the St Brigid's club and, at senior level, for the Roscommon county team. A midfielder in the late 1970s, he won a National League medal in 1979, although a knee injury kept him out of the final in which Roscommon beat Cork, and he played in the Roscommon side that lost the 1980 All-Ireland final to Kerry. After his playing career he managed Roscommon. He took the team to the 1982 All-Ireland Under-21 final, took over the senior side in 1988, and won the Connacht Senior Football Championship in 1990 and 1991, with Roscommon reaching six provincial finals between 1987 and 1993 and spending several years in Division 1 of the league. He later moved to south Dublin in 1997, where he was involved with Kilmacud Crokes in coaching, management and as director of football. He is a bank manager by profession.