Desmond "Dessie" Sloyan (born 2 February 1976) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer.
His league and championship career at senior level with the Sligo county team spanned ten seasons from 1996 until 2006.
[1] Sloyan scored eight points in Sligo's unexpected victory over a Mick O'Dwyer-managed Kildare in the 2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
[2] He has also had a successful managerial career in Gaelic Football, winning a Connacht Junior Club Football Championship in 2018 with his club Easkey [3] and also managing Sligo GAA U20s to their first ever provincial title at that age group when winning the 2022 Connacht Under-20 Football Championship.
[5] As of 2025, he was working with manager Ray Dempsey and head coach and selector Joe Brolly at Mayo's Knockmore GAA club.