Mick Dempsey (Gaelic footballer)

Mick Dempsey is an Irish former Gaelic footballer and manager who played at senior level for the Laois county team. One of seven children born to Jack Dempsey from Laois and Annie Spain from County Offaly, he captained his club St Joseph's to the Laois Senior Football Championship in 1983 and was part of the Laois side that won the National Football League in 1986. As a manager he led Laois to the Leinster Under-21 title in 1994 and ran the county's senior team in 1997 and 1998. He then trained O'Hanrahans of Carlow to three county championships and a Leinster title in 2000, and managed the Muckalee and St Martins clubs in Kilkenny before joining Brian Cody's backroom team with the Kilkenny senior hurlers in 2003. He stepped down from that role in October 2019 and in 2021 helped Loughmore-Castleiney win both the Tipperary football and hurling titles as a selector.