Dick Clerkin is a
Gaelic football
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er who plays for Currin and, previously, at senior level for the
Monaghan county team.
He ended 17 years with Monaghan in 2016 as the longest-serving
inter-county
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footballer, with his debut in 1999, with two
Ulster Championship medals in his back pocket and two
National League
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Division 2 crowns in his other pocket. All in all he played 179 or 180 appearances for Monaghan (all the reports give different numbers), most of it in midfield, and also played his club football for Currin.
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- 1 November 2016 - Dick Clerkin hangs up boots for Monaghan"> He gave his retirement speech to the ''
'', confirming the end of the last player left from the 1990s.
in 2016.
Clerkin was Monaghan's only winner of an Ulster All-Star in 2010, where he was paired with
in midfield.