Dermot Flanagan is a former

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who played for the Mayo county team and received two All Stars awards. He is the son of Irish Minister and Mayo Gaelic footballer

Seán Flanagan Seán Flanagan (26 January 1922 – 5 February 1993) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Gaelic footballer who served as Minister for Health from 1966 to 1969, Minister for Lands from 1969 to 1973 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minis ...

Playing career

Dermot Flanagan began playing for the Mayo Minor team in 1979. He played with the Mayo Senior team for 15 years from 1982–1997. During his Senior career, he won seven

Connacht Connacht or Connaught ( ; or ), is the smallest of the four provinces of Ireland, situated in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, C ...

titles. Flanagan received All Star awards in 1985 and 1989. He is Mayo's second most-capped player (after

James Nallen James Nallen (born 1973 in Castlebar) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Mayo county team. He is the team's record appearance holder with 132. He has worked as Chief Technical Officer at NUI Galway's School of Physics NUI ...

) with 122 appearances.

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