Dominic Corrigan (Gaelic footballer)

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Dominic Corrigan
Personal information
Irish name Damhnaic Ó Corragáin
Sport Gaelic football
Position Full-forward
Born 1962 (age 59–60) [1] [2]
Height 5 ft 10 [1]  in (1.78 m)
Nickname Dom [2] [3]
Occupation Schoolteacher
Club(s)
YearsClub
 Kinawley
Colleges(s)
YearsCollege
 Jordanstown
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
 Fermanagh

Dominic "Dom" Corrigan (born 1962) is a Gaelic footballer and manager. He played for Kinawley and the Fermanagh county team. He later managed Fermanagh and, also, Sligo.

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Family life

Corrigan got his schooling at St Aidan's in Derrylin and at St Michael's College, Enniskillen (where he would later go on to teach). [1] He then went to Jordanstown, winning an All-Ireland Colleges Trench Cup medal there in 1984. [1] He moved home to Enniskillen in 1987. [2]

A member of a family of eight, Corrigan married Mary ( née McCabe) from Aghadrumsee. [1] Their first child, Tomás Corrigan, would go on to play for Fermanagh. [1] [4] He has another son, Ruáirí, also a Gaelic footballer. [2]

Playing career

Corrigan is a Kinawley clubman. [5] He made his debut for Kinawley as an eleven-year-old goalkeeper in 1973. [2]

Corrigan played as a full-forward for Fermanagh. [1] He was involved in the 1982 campaign, when he scored 1–3 against Tyrone in that year's Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) semi-final. [1] He was one of only two players still going ten years later when he was thirty years of age, and, in the intervening years he won himself a Division 2 County League medal, an Intermediate Championship medal in 1988 (to go with the won he one in 1981) and sprinkled over with some underage souvenirs. [1]

Managerial career

Corrigan first picked up his whistle[ clarification needed ] at St Michael's College, Enniskillen in the 1980s and went on to become "synonymous with Gaelic football" there. [6] He led the college to a first Hogan Cup (All-Ireland) title in 2019. [7]

Corrigan also managed Fermanagh and Sligo during the 2000s. [5] He stepped down as Fermanagh manager in December 2003. [8] As a 41-year-old that year he was the youngest inter-county manager on the scene. [9] He subsequently left his position as Sligo manager, in difficult circumstances, in 2006. [10]

Corrigan won several SFCs in club management. As of December 2021, he had won championships with five clubs in three counties, a total of seven County Senior Championship titles. [2] He was involved in coaching along with Pete McMahon as Castleblayney swept up a Monaghan crown in 1999 and 2000 and then there was Carrickmore in 2004, Clontibret in 2014 and Killyclogher in 2016. [5] He led Ballinamore to a Leitrim Senior Football Championship title in 2021 when, as he said himself, he was close to sixty years of age. [5] And so he was happy to be looking for a return to the inter-county scene. [5] This was a first SFC title for Leitrim GAA's most successful club since 1990. [5] And it was also a sixth county title for Corrigan. [5] He has spoken in support of the quality of football played in Leitrim. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Corrigan, Dominic". Hogan Stand. 19 June 1992. Still only thirty years old, the fully-qualified Physical Education Teacher will be the most Senior hand on deck for Fermanagh this weekend as the provincial minnows
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brennan, Katrina (9 December 2021). "Corrigan is coming home". Fermanagh Herald .
  3. ↑ "Why I quit: GAA manager explains shock decision". The Sligo Champion . 16 October 2007.
  4. ↑ Clerkin, Malachy (20 May 2017). "When small Fermanagh victories mean as much as All-Irelands do to Dublin". The Irish Times.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Loughran, Neil (19 October 2021). "Dominic Corrigan open to inter-county return in 2022 after Leitrim SFC success". The Irish News .
  6. ↑ Bradley, Colm (22 October 2016). "Dominic Corrigan: The man in charge of St Michael's, Enniskillen football factory". The Irish News .
  7. ↑ McKenna, Conor (6 April 2019). "Enniskillen's St Michael's College take first Hogan Cup title". The Irish Times.
  8. ↑ "Mulgrew takes over at Fermanagh". RTÉ. 16 January 2004.
  9. ↑ Donoghue, Eamon (11 August 2016). "GAA Statistics: Gaelic football is a young man's game — on and off the field". The Irish Times. The youngest manager back then — in just the third ever series of football quarter finals after the introduction of the qualifiers — was 41-year-old Dominic Corrigan.
  10. ↑ "Breheny quits Sligo". Hogan Stand. 10 October 2007.
  11. ↑ McKeon, Conor (18 October 2021). "Two-tier championship must be part of football revamp — Dominic Corrigan". Irish Independent.
Sporting positions
Preceded by Fermanagh Senior Football Manager
2001–2003		Succeeded by
Preceded by Sligo Senior Football Manager
2004–2006		Succeeded by
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