Joe Cassidy (Gaelic footballer)
| Personal information | |||
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| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Corner forward | ||
| Born |
2 April 1977 Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
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| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Occupation | PE teacher | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1994-2007 | Bellaghy | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Derry titles | 6 senior | ||
| Ulster titles | 2 senior | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1997-2001 | Derry | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Ulster titles | 1 senior, 1 u21, 1 minor | ||
| All-Irelands | 1 U-21 all Ireland | ||
| NFL | 1 | ||
| All Stars | All star nominee 1997, Irish news Allstar 1997 | ||
| Club management | |||||
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Joe Cassidy (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer and currently a manager. He played for Derry between 1997 and 2001. Cassidy played his club football for Bellaghy Wolfe Tones and won the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship twice, and the Derry Senior Football Championship 6 times with the club. For both club and county Cassidy played in forward line.
A back injury forced Cassidy to retire from playing at any early age and has since become involving in managing and currently manager of Greenlough. He is brother of former Derry player and current Derry manager Damian Cassidy.
Cassidy was part of the Derry minor team that won the 1995 Ulster Minor Championship and finished runners-up to Westmeath in that year's All-Ireland Minor final.
In 1997 Cassidy and Derry won the Ulster Under 21 and All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships, defeating Fermanagh and Meath in the respective finals. He was also on the team the following year, but Derry were defeated at the Ulster final stage by Armagh.
He made his Derry senior debut in February 1997 against Kildare in the National League. Derry reached that year's Ulster Championship final but were defeated by Cavan. A year later he won the Ulster Championship with Derry, beating Donegal in the final. Derry lost out to Galway in that year's All-Ireland Championship semi-final. In 2000 he won the National League with Derry??. Derry also reached that year's Ulster final but were defeated by Armagh.
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