Dermot Keely

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Dermot Keely
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Personal information
Full name	Dermot Keely
Date of birth	March 8 1954 (age 54)
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Shelbourne
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983-1986	Home Farm St. Patrick's Athletic Dundalk Glentoran UCD Shamrock Rovers
Teams managed
1983-1983 1986-1988 1989-1992 1998-2002 2002-2003 2003-2003 2005-2006 2007-present	UCD Shamrock Rovers Sligo Rovers Longford Town Dundalk Finn Harps Athlone Town Home Farm Shelbourne Kildare County Derry City Dublin City Shelbourne
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Dermot Keely, (born 8 March 1954 in Dublin) is the current manager of Irish football team Shelbourne FC.

The Keely name has been synonymous with League of Ireland football with his late father Peter playing for Shelbourne, his brother Joe played on the same Home Farm FAI Cup winning side of 1975 as Dermot and his son Alan currently playing for Waterford United.

As a player he started with Home Farm and after a spell at St. Patrick's Athletic he moved to Dundalk where he made his debut against Shamrock Rovers in September 1978. In his first season the Co. Louth outfit won the domestic double. In 1981 Keely captained Dundalk to win the FAI Cup. The League Cup was also won this season.

Keely then signed for Glentoran in the Irish League where in his two seasons there he won the Irish Cup, a Gold Cup and an Ulster Cup.

His first managerial job was as UCD player-manager. However after only two months at Belfield Jim McLaughlin persuaded Keely to sign for Shamrock Rovers. He made his debut against Athlone Town in November 1983. He scored his first goal for Rovers in a 3-2 defeat to Shelbourne at Harold's Cross on the 11th of December 1983. When McLaughlin left at the end of the 1985/86 season to manage his home club Derry City Dermot was appointed player-manager on the 16th of May.

Unfortunately the 1986/87 season was tragic for Rovers with the disgraceful decision to sell Glenmalure Park announced near the end of season. Despite this Rovers won yet another double in their final season at Milltown to bring Keely's Rovers haul to 4 League championships and 3 FAI Cups. In fact the 4th League win in a row was achieved on Keely's 33rd birthday.

The 1987/88 season started with Rovers very controversially playing at Tolka Park. Rovers fans boycotted the ground en masse. Every game was picketed and with the crowds practically gone the team invariably suffered. Keely was quoted years later in The Hoops (ISBN 0-7171-2121-6):

“

I didnt realise the depth of feeling about Glenmalure Park and all I wanted to do was win the League for Shamrock Rovers.

”

He resigned after the last game of the season on the 8th of April 1988. During his time at Rovers he won one Inter-League cap.

He then took over as manager of Sligo Rovers in 1989 and achieved promotion in his first season. He guided them to their highest Premier Division place in a decade in the 1990/91 season by finishing 5th.

After a brief spell at Longford Town he took over at Dundalk where he won the League Championship in 1995. He then guided Finn Harps to promotion to the Premier Division in 1996. After managing Athlone Town he took over the reins at Home Farm where he won the First Division Shield in 1998.

During his time as manager of Shelbourne, from 1998-2002, he won two championships (1999-2000 and 2001-02) and one FAI Cup (2000). He also guided Shels to victory over Macedonian side Sloga Jugomagnat in the first round of 2000-01 Champions League qualifiers. Shels 1-0 win in the first leg in Skopje was the first away win for a League of Ireland side in any UEFA competitions for eighteen years.

Keely then became the first manager of new league club Kildare County in 2002. After a credible 5th place finish he then walked out to manage Derry City lasting only 3 months [1]

After a spell out of the game he then took over at doomed club Dublin City [2]He has just taken over the managment position at Shelbourne FC who are in the first division this year.

Dermot Keely has also been working as a maths teacher in De La Salle College Churchtown for over 20 years and has a weekly column in the Irish Sun.

References

Shelbourne F.C. - Current Squad
Brophy |  Byrne |  Chambers |  Collins |  Crawford |  Gartland |  Harte |  Hussey |  Lacey |  Leech |  McEneff |  McKenna |  Moran |  Murphy |  O'Dowd |  O'Neill |  O'Reilly |  Rafferty |  Ryan |  Walsh | Manager: Keely

Preceded by Damien Richardson	Shelbourne manager 1998-2002	Succeeded by Pat Fenlon
Preceded by Kevin Mahon	Derry City F.C. manager 2003-2003	Succeeded by Gavin Dykes
Preceded by Pat Fenlon	Shelbourne manager 2007-	Succeeded by '

Derry City F.C. - Managers

McCleery (1929-32) | Gillespie (1932-40) | Management Team Committee (1940-42) | Ross (1942-53) | Management Team Committee (1953-58) | Houston (1958-59) | Doherty (1959-61) | Ross 1961-68) | Hill (1968-71) | Wood (1971-72) | Ross (1972-72) | The "wilderness years" (1972-85) | Crossan (1985-85) | King (1985-87) | McLaughlin (1987-91) | Coyle (1991-93) | O'Doherty (1993-94) | Healy (1994-98) | Mahon (1998-2003) | Keely (2003-03) | Dykes (2003-04) | Hutton (2004-04) | Kenny (2004-06) | Fenlon (2006-present)

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