JP Rooney explained

Code:	Football
Sport:	Gaelic Football
JP Rooney
Birth Place:	Louth
Birth Date:	27 August 1979^[1]
Feet:	5
Inches:	10
County:	Louth
Province:	Leinster
Club:	Naomh Máirtín
Clyears:	1997-2020
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 retired Gaelic footballer from Monasterboice in County Louth, Ireland. He played with the Louth senior football team and his local club side Naomh Máirtín.^[2] He also represented his province in the 2002 Railway Cup.

He received the Drogheda Independent/Drogheda Concentrates Sportstar of the Year Award for 2000.^[3]

Rooney lined out at left corner-forward on the Louth team that played in the final of the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship, but lost in controversial circumstances to Meath.^[4]

Honours

County

• National Football League Division 2 (2): 1999-2000, 2006
• Railway Cup (1) : 2002^[5]
• 2006 Tommy Murphy Cup (1): 2006^[6]
• O'Byrne Cup (1): 2009^[7]
• National Football League Division 3 (1): 2011^[8]

Club

• Louth Senior Football Championship (2): 2020,^[9] 2021^[10]
• Cardinal O'Donnell Cup (2) 2017,^[11] 2019^[12]
• Louth Senior Football League Division 1B (1): 2006^[13]
• Paddy Sheelan Shield (1): 2012^[14]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rooney JP. Hogan Stand. 30 June 2000.
2. Web site: Louth's JP is back!. Hogan Stand. 2007-02-08. 2010-07-15.
3. Web site: Rooney named Sportstar of the Year. Drogheda Independent. 9 February 2001.
4. Web site: Ref's rush of blood robs Louth. Drogheda Independent. 14 July 2010.
5. Web site: Louth quartet win Railway Cup. The Argus. 8 November 2002.
6. Web site: McEneaney needs big 70 from Wee county in Murphy final. The Irish Mirror. 26 August 2006.
7. Web site: Louth examination too tough for college kids. . 26 January 2009.
8. Web site: Louth have their final breakthrough. Irish Times. 25 April 2011.
9. Web site: Naomh Mairtin land first Louth SFC title . 28 September 2020 . Irish Examiner. 27 September 2020.
10. Web site: Magnificent Mairtins power to back-to-back Louth titles . Irish Independent. 7 November 2021.
11. Web site: Jocks claim maiden senior honour with extra-time win over Dreadnots . Dundalk Democrat. 14 October 2017 .
12. Web site: Sam's the man for Mairtins. The Argus. 14 September 2019.
13. Web site: Senior trophy at last for jubilant Mairtins. The Argus. 13 December 2006.
14. Web site: LOUTH GAA CLUB ROLL OF HONOUR. The Argus. 26 December 2012.