Dessie Finnegan is a Gaelic football player who played for the Louth inter-county team and St Patrick's GFC of Lordship, County Louth. He won a National Football League Division 3 medal in 2011. His older brother Ray Finnegan was also a member of the Louth senior football team. He is played in the full-back position, and was a member of the Louth team that contested the Leinster trophy in 2010.