Dermot Carlin is a

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er for the Killyclogher St Mary's club and the Tyrone county team. He was a member of the squad that won the county's first

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in 2003. In the same year he was part of the Killyclogher team which captured the Tyrone Senior Football Championship for the first time. Carlin was also part of Tyrone's 2001 All-Ireland Minor Championship winning team. In a very competitive era in Tyrone football, Carlin fought his way back onto the first team lineup by 2007. He also has a very rich past in underage football, having represented Omagh CBS in the

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, reaching the final two years in a row, Dermot was the captain sharing the trophy in 2001, due to the onset of

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. Carlin represented the

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when he was a student there.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Killyclogher St Mary's Gaelic footballers Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Tyrone-gaelic-football-bio-stub