Martin "Marty" McDermott is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the St Brigid's GAA club and at senior level for the Roscommon county team.
[1] In 1983 he took his local club St Brigid's to a Roscommon Senior Football Championship final, but lost out to Clan na nGael.
[2] The Mayo team that defeated them in 1989 was burned by a favourite stag earned from the 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final but the primrose and blues took them to a replay and took them to extra-time before the loss came.
Derek Duggan scored a farmers free into the teeth of a strong wind over Mayo over in Castlebar to tie the game up.
[2] In the same year, the team were within a solitaire point off Meath in the 1991 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final.
[3] McDermott is a native of Oran, and after managing Roscommon to two Connacht SFC titles in 1990 and 1991, he relocated to South Dublin in 1997, moving to Blackrock-Stillorgan.