The new Roscommon GAA training centre will be named after the late Dermot Earley.

The facility in Runnabracken will be named after the former Roscommon footballer and Irish Defence Force chief of staff.

The announcement was made over in New York last weekend at a special fundraiser ahead of the Connacht SFC clash between Roscommon and New York.

Regarded as Roscommon's greatest ever footballer by many, Dermot Earley plied his trade with the Connacht side throughout the late seventies and early eighties.

And his brother Paul who also represented the county told the Roscommon Herald: "The fact that it's going to be called after Dermot is a huge honour. I know that he would be thrilled if he was around. He was a humble man. He would always support something that was going to develop the youth of Roscommon and for them to be the best they could be.

"He would be thrilled about that because he was very interested and committed in the development of young people."

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