Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic Football |
JP Rooney | |
Fullname: | John Paul Rooney |
Age: | 38 |
Birth Place: | Louth |
Birth Date: | 27 August 1979 |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 10 |
County: | Louth |
Province: | Leinster |
Club: | Naomh Máirtín |
Clyears: | 1997-2020 |
Clapps(Points): | 57 |
Club League: | division 1-b, 2006 club championship=clcounty = |
Counties: | Louth |
Icposition: | Full Forward |
Icyears: | 1999-2012 |
Icapps(Points): | 15-74 |
Icprovince: | 0 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Allstars: | 0 |
J P Rooney (John Paul) is a Gaelic footballer from County Louth, Ireland. He plays with the Louth and Naomh Máirtín teams.[1] He was part of the Louth team that played in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship[2] in 2010, but were beaten in controversial circumstances by Meath.[3] He helped Louth to win both Tommy Murphy Cup and National League Div 2 tiles in 2006. JP is Naomh Máirtín's most well known player and in 2000 he won the Drogheda Independent/Drogheda Concentrates Sportstar of the Year. He has since retired from playing for Louth GAA but still plays for Naomh Máirtín. He has taken up a role as an underage coach for Louth GAA where he coaches teams under the age of 18.