David Henry is a Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Dublin county team and plays his club football for

Raheny Raheny () is a northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland, halfway from the city centre to Howth. It is centred on a historic settlement, first documented in 570 CE ( Mervyn Archdall). The district shares Dublin's two largest municipal parks, Saint An ...

. He was on the Dublin Leinster Senior Football Championship winning side in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Henry played at right half back on the Dublin senior football team. He came on as a substitute and was later sent off in the

O'Byrne Cup The Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup is a Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster GAA and first staged in 1954. The competition is named after Matt Byrne, a former Wicklow GAA club and county officer. By virtue of a quirk in translation, ...

final for Dublin against Laois at

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in Offaly. The game finished on a scoreline of 1-18 to 2-13 against Laois. David was on Dublin's 2008 O'Byrne Cup winning team, which defeated Longford in the final.HILL 16
/ref> He also played senior hurling with

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. David has worked as an analyst for

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television station

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. He also worked as a youth leader at Coláiste Árainn Mhóir in Donegal during his summer holidays during college, assisting in teaching Irish to teenagers. David was part of the 2011 Dublin All Ireland winning squad who beat Kerry 1-12 to 1-11 in the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. David went to

NUI Maynooth The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It w ...

as a hurler under their GAA scholarship programme.

References

External links

Raheny GAA Website
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Dual players Dublin hurlers Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers Gaelic football backs Raheny GAA Gaelic footballers {{Dublin-gaelic-football-bio-stub