Paul Clarke (Irish footballer)

Paul Clarke, born in 1966 in County Dublin, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Whitehall Colmcille club and was a senior member of the Dublin county team for a number of years from 1985. He played soccer as a child up to Under-14 level at St Aidan's CBS before taking up Gaelic football, joined the Dublin minor team in 1983 and captained it to the 1984 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship. He joined the Dublin senior panel in October 1985 and made his debut in a National League win over Donegal, going on to play in many positions in the backs, midfield and forwards. In 1995, in his fourth All-Ireland final, he won his only All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal, and he won his only All Star award in the same year. In September 1994 he signed for Shelbourne.