| Dessie Sloyan | |
| Irish: | Deasún Ó Sluáin |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Easkey, County Sligo, Ireland |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 11 |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Code: | Football |
| County: | Sligo |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Easkey |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Counties: | Sligo |
| Icyears: | 1996–2006 |
| Icposition: | Full-forward |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nfl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 14:54, 27 November 2016 |
Desmond "Dessie" Sloyan (born 2 February 1976) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career at senior level with the Sligo county team spanned ten seasons from 1996 until 2006.[1]
Sloyan scored eight points in Sligo's unexpected victory over a Mick O'Dwyer-managed Kildare in the 2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.[2]
He has also had a successful managerial career in Gaelic Football, winning a Connacht Junior Club Football Championship in 2018 with his club Easkey [3] and also managing Sligo GAA U20s to their first ever provincial title at that age group when winning the 2022 Connacht Under-20 Football Championship.[4]
He joined the Longford senior football team backroom team when Paddy Christie was appointed manager in August 2022.[5]
| Team | Year | Connacht | All-Ireland | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Sligo | 1997 | 2 | 1-03 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 1-03 | |
| 1998 | 3 | 1-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 3 | 1-00 | ||
| 1999 | 2 | 0-02 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-02 | ||
| 2000 | 2 | 0-03 | 0 | 0-00 | 2 | 0-03 | ||
| 2001 | 1 | 0-04 | 3 | 1-15 | 4 | 1-19 | ||
| 2002 | 3 | 1-06 | 3 | 1-17 | 6 | 2-23 | ||
| 2003 | 2 | 0-10 | 1 | 0-05 | 3 | 0-15 | ||
| 2004 | 2 | 0-09 | 1 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-10 | ||
| 2005 | 0 | 0-00 | 4 | 0-05 | 4 | 0-05 | ||
| 2006 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | ||
| Total | 17 | 3-37 | 12 | 2-43 | 29 | 5-80 | ||