Malachy O'Rourke
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| Irish name | Ó Ruairc | ||
| Sport | Football | ||
| Occupation | Schoolteacher | ||
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| Years | Club | ||
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Derrylin Errigal Ciarán | |||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
c. 1989 | St Mary's | ||
| College titles | |||
| Sigerson titles | 1 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| Fermanagh | |||
| Club management | |||||
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| Inter-county management | |||||
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Malcahy O'Rourke is a Gaelic football manager and former player.
Career
He played fer Formanagh for more than ten years, and could take frees, and beat Antrim twice in the championship in that time.[1]
When he was studying to be a physical education teacher at St Mary's University College, Belfast, O'Rourke played on the St Mary's team that won the 1989 Sigerson Cup along with people like Jarlath Burns, Pascal Canavan, Seamus Downey, Danny Quinn and Benny Tierney.[1] His thesis was on the VO2 max of Gaelic footballers.[1]
He left his club Derrylin in the early 1990s and got a transfer to Errigal Ciarán because he had moved to Ballygawley, County Tyrone, on account of him teaching at St Joseph's Enniskillen and his wife teaching in Eglish so Ballygawley worked for the pair of them.[1] He got himself settled with Errigal Ciarán and won himself a couple of championships.[1]
He began his coaching career with Tyholland in 2001 and got them straight away into the senior grade where they had never been before.[1] Two years after that he got the The Loup job and got them to a first Senior Championship for 68 years, then a first ever Ulster title.[1] Errigal Ciarán came looking to get him in 2006 and they got a Senior Championship out of that.[1] Then he went off to Cavan Gaels in 2007.[1]
O'Rourke succeeded Charlie Mulgrew as Fermanagh senior manager in October 2007.[2] His first season featured a first appearance in an Ulster SFC final for 26 years, lost eventually to Armagh in a replay.[3][4] It was only Fermanagh's second appearance at this stage of the competition for 63 years, knocking out Monaghan and Derry along the way.[1] His time as Fermanagh manager ended in 2010, after Fermanagh were relegated to Division 4 of the National Football League and a heavy defeat to Monaghan in the 2010 Ulster SFC semi-final.[5]
O'Rourke took the Monaghan job in 2013, and go them a first Ulster Senior title for 25 years.[1] He got Monaghan from Division 3 to Division 1 one after the other.[1] He got Monaghan to win against Kerry in 2015 National League and they hadn't done that in 27 years, then he got them as far as one point away from the Dubs in the same year's League semi-final.[1] After getting them to a second Ulster Senior final in a row, he got them to a third Ulster final in a row, three straight final appearances, a first for Monaghan in 92 years.[1] He did four All Ireland Senior quarter finals for Monaghan then got Monaghan to the 2018 All Ireland Senior semi final, only losing by a point to Tyrone before he went off in June 2019.[6]
He took the Glen job in October 2020, his first job since he went as Monaghan boss in June 2019.[7]
He got linked with the Meath job when Andy McEntee went in June 2022.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n O'Connor, Christy (16 July 2015). "Friday profile: Malachy O'Rourke — Up on the high-wire getting the job done". Irish Independent.
- ^ "O'Rourke is new Fermanagh manager". BBC. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ "Fermanagh 1-11 Derry 1-09". RTÉ. 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
- ^ "Owens goal puts Fermanagh into Ulster SFC Final". Irish Independent. 22 June 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
- ^ "O'Rourke resigns as Fermanagh manager". The Irish Times. 22 July 2010.
- ^ Slattery, Joel (28 June 2019). "Malachy O'Rourke pays tribute to Monaghan players and supporters: Last week's defeat to Armagh in the qualifiers brought an end to O'Rourke's reign where he brought Ulster titles to the Farney County in 2013 and 2015". Irish Examiner.
- ^ "Malachy O'Rourke: Glen appoint former Farney boss as new manager". BBC. 24 October 2020.
- ^ McKeon, Conor (7 June 2022). "Malachy O'Rourke tops shortlist to replace Andy McEntee in Meath hot seat". Irish Independent.
External links
- "Malachy O'Rourke: the manager and man revered wherever he goes". The Irish News.
- "Mickey Moran and Malachy O'Rourke: The ultimate meeting of Ulster minds". The Irish Times.
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