In 2008 Australian Football League agent Ricky Nixon recruited McNicholl as one of four Irish scouts to look for talented young Gaelic football players for possible recruitment to AFL teams.
Dermot Mulroney | Dermot O'Leary | Dermot Desmond | Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo | The Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show | Dermot O'Hurley | Dermot McNicholl | Dermot Healy | Dermot Gallagher | Dermot Earley, Snr | Bradley (left) and Monaghan's Dermot McArdle in action in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship |
Dermot McNicholl, one of the leading Gaelic footballers in the county in the 1980s and 1990s, also played Australian rules football and in the International Rules Series.