Dessie Sloyan

Dessie Sloyan

Personal information
Irish name	Deasún Ó Sluáin
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Full-forward
Born	(1976-02-02) 2 February 1976 (age 48) Easkey, County Sligo, Ireland
Height	5 ft 11[1] in (1.80 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Easkey
Club titles
Sligo titles	0
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1996–2006	Sligo
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	0
All-Irelands	0
NFL	0
All Stars	0

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]

Playing career

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]

Managerial career

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]

Career statistics

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

References

1. "Sligo's Dessie Sloyan". Vol. 7, no. 31. Hogan Stand. 1 August 1997.
2. "2001 — Remembering first back-door season 20 years on". RTÉ. 14 March 2021.
3. "Connacht club JFC final: McKenna the Easkey hero - HoganStand". hoganstand.com. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
4. "Sloyan says it's a joy to work with Sligo U20 players who are the Connacht champions". independent. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
5. Lawlor, Damian (27 August 2022). "Paddy Christie appointed Longford senior football manager". RTÉ.