David Hickey is a former Gaelic footballer, semi-professional rugby union player and selector for the Dublin county team.

The club's president, who also happened to be a local councillor and surgeon, allowed Hickey to continue his medical training with him in the operating theatre.

[1] He left the club because his surgical training programme required him to be in Ireland but said he would never have returned to his own country if he had been studying another subject.

[1] Clontarf were invited to France to play a game against Stade Rochelais to commemorate the end of Hickey's time there.

[1] He invited his old French rugby teammates to Ireland for the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final (drawn game), having introduced them to Gaelic football through repeated viewings of the 1977 Dublin and Kerry All-Ireland semi-final while travelling to rugby games across France.