Declan Rooney

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Declan Rooney (born 1983/1984) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played in the 2010 All-Ireland Final. He is a defender.{{cite news|url=https://www.hoganstand.com/article/index/190360|title=Down defender switches club allegiance|work=Hogan Stand|date=18 April 2013}}

A Burren stalwart, he won a Down Senior Football Championship medal in 2010 when his club won that competition for the first since 1997. He won another in 2018, after turning 34 (he missed the 2011 county championship because of going over on his ankle).{{cite news|url=https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2018/11/02/news/declan-rooney-1468147/|title=Burren stalwart Declan Rooney looks towards Ulster after Down triumph|work=The Irish News|first=Neil|last=Loughran|date=2 November 2018}} His carpentry work brought him to Dublin, and in 2013 he joined the St Sylvester's club; while there he was nursing a shoulder injury but held Dublin senior player Diarmuid Connolly scoreless when he made a substitute appearance at half-time against St Vincents in a Dublin Senior Football Championship quarter-final, Vincents winning the game by a point and later lifting the 2013–14 All-Ireland (Andy Merrigan Cup) title.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/incoming/downs-rooney-teams-up-with-syls-29208448.html|title=Down's Rooney teams up with Syls|work=Irish Independent|date=19 April 2013}}