# Jonny Cooper

Jonathan "Jonny" Cooper (born 4 November 1989) is a dual player, who nowadays predominantly plays Gaelic footballer who plays inter-county for the Dublin county football team and the Na Fianna club.Cooper played hurling at schoolboy and minor level. First playing football under manager Jim Gavin at under-21 level, Cooper is reckoned to be one of Gavin's most trusted players. == Early life == The youngest of four children born to Brendan and Loyola, Cooper has two brothers called Niall and Mark and a sister called Jules.He is a grandnephew of Simon Deignan, who played in the Polo Grounds final of 1947.Loyola's father, who helped found the Na Fianna club in 1955, had emigrated from Cavan and begun a clothes whoelsale business in Ranelagh.