Roy Dooney (born 23 January 1958) is an Irish former runner, who came second at the 1991 Chicago Marathon.

[1] In 1988, Dooney was part of the Irish team that won a 50 kilometres (31 mi) relay road race event in New York City.

[10] In the same year, he won the Grandma's Marathon in a time of 2:13:25,[11] after breaking away from American Chad Bennion within the last 2 miles (3.2 km) of the race.

[12] Dooney worked as a promoter for the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships which were held in Dublin, Ireland.

[13][14] In 2014, Roy and Conor Dooney became the 13th father and son pair to have both competed for Ireland at the European Cross Country Championships.