Dermot Molloy

Playing career Club Molloy has had great success with his club Naomh Conaill, winning Championships at under-age level and then the Donegal Senior Football Championship.

He first encountered McGuinness while with his club and first played under him in 2009, a year in which reached the final of the Donegal Senior Football Championship, but lost.

He played for his club in the final of the 2015 Donegal Senior Football Championship. His club won.

He made a substitute appearance for his club in the final of the 2019 Donegal Senior Football Championship. After the first two games finished level, his club won the third game and, with that, the title, Molloy appearing as a substitute in all three games, scoring two points in the second game and no points in the other first and third games.

He made a substitute appearance for his club in the final of the 2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship. His club won, following extra-time and a penalty shoot-out.

He missed his club's 2022 Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta Donegal Senior semi-final and final wins as they coincided with his stag party.

Then he made a substitute appearance for his club in the final of the 2022 Donegal Senior Football Championship. His club won.

He also had a role in his club's 2023 Donegal Senior Football Championship title win. Though he did not play in the final.

Molloy played for his club in the 2025 Donegal SFC, when his club won the final again, with Molloy making a substitute appearance in that game.

Inter-county Minor Molloy played minor inter-county football for Donegal in 2008 and 2009.

Under-21 Molloy played for the under-21 footballers in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and captained the team in 2012.

He played for Donegal in the 2010 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship campaign, contributing six points (including three frees) to the team's three-point quarter-final victory over Armagh, three points (all frees) to the team's four-point semi-final victory over Derry and clarify|date=May 2020|reason=The local source awards him the point that the national source awards to Antoin McFadden.|text=either 1–3

He then played in the final of the 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship, which Donegal (managed by Jim McGuinness) narrowly lost to Dublin (managed by Jim Gavin), though Molloy scored five points (including four frees).

Senior Following the 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final loss, and while returning home to Galway (where he lived with Leo McLoone at the time), Molloy received word that he had been called into the senior county team. He was an injury doubt ahead of the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final against Kildare.

He was a member of the Donegal panel that won the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final against Mayo, coming on as a substitute for Martin McElhinney in injury time in the second half.

Molloy started Rory Gallagher's first match in charge of the county, a 2015 Dr McKenna Cup away defeat to Derry. He left the team later that month, ahead of the start of the 2015 National Football League.

Honours Donegal All-Ireland Senior Football Championship: 2012 Ulster Senior Football Championship: 2011, 2012, 2014 National Football League Division 2: 2011 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship runner-up: 2010 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship: 2010

Naomh Conaill Donegal Senior Football Championship: 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Donegal Senior League: 2011 Donegal Under-21 Football Championship: 2008, 2010, 2012 Donegal Minor Football Championship: 2009

Individual Ulster Gaelic Life'' Team of the Year: 2010