Darren Rooney

Darren Rooney is an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler from County Laois. His dual status makes him most unusual in the modern GAA.

Darren Rooney

Personal information
Irish name	Darren Ó Ruanaidh
Football Position:	Right half back
Hurling Position:	Centre back
Born	Portlaoise, Ireland
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Clonaslee–St Manman's Parnells
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
2005- 2008-2012	Laois hurlers Laois footballers
Inter-county titles
	Football	Hurling
Leinster Titles	1
League titles		2

He currently plays for the Parnells club in Dublin. He usually plays at right half back or full back art senior level for the Laois county team and in 2003 was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946. Rooney was a member of the Laois minor team that retained the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1997.

Honours

• Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 2003
• National Hurling League Division 2 (2): 2002, 2007
• All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship (1): 2002
• Leinster Minor Football Championship (1): 1997
• All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (1): 1997

External links

• The Times interview^{[dead link]}
• "In Brief: Rooney new Laois football captain". Irish Independent. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 19 December 2020.