Joe Cassidy (born 2 April 1977[2]) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer and currently a manager.
A back injury forced Cassidy to retire from playing at an early age.
[2] In 1997 Cassidy and Derry won the Ulster Under 21 and All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships,[2] defeating Fermanagh and Meath in the respective finals.
In 1995 they reached the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final, but were defeated by Kilmacud Crokes of Dublin.
Cassidy's playing honours with his school include an All-Ireland B Colleges title.
He then went back into football management in 2015 and led Greenlough to a historic double - Intermediate League & Championship - both seniors & reserves Cassidy is a PE teacher in Cross and Passion College in Ballycastle,[1] and has had some successes managing the school hurling teams winning numerous Ulster Colleges titles and he coached the senior team in school to the All-Ireland Colleges Hurling title (April 2009), the first Antrim school in 30 years to do so.
He then backed this up in 2010 and finally in April 2015 he and co-manager Oran Kearney led them to their 3rd All Ireland Title in 7 years.