Malachy O'Rourke

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Malachy O'Rourke
Personal information
Irish name Ó Ruairc
Sport Football
Occupation Schoolteacher
Club(s)
YearsClub
 Derrylin
Errigal Ciarán
Colleges(s)
YearsCollege
c. 1989
 St Mary's
College titles
Sigerson titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
 Fermanagh
Club management
YearsClub
c. 2001
c. 2003
c. 2006
2007
2020–2025		 Tyholland
The Loup
Errigal Ciarán
Cavan Gaels
Glen
Inter-county management
YearsTeam
2007–2010
2012–2019
2025–		 Fermanagh
Monaghan
Tyrone

Malachy O'Rourke is a Gaelic football manager and former player.

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Career

He played for Fermanagh for more than ten years, but was only on the winning side twice in that period in the championship (both time against Antrim). [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 in South Tyrone worked for the pair of them. [1] He got himself settled with Errigal Ciarán and won two championships. [1]

He began his coaching career with Tyholland in 2001 and got them promoted to the senior grade for the first time in his first season. [1] Two years after that he took The Loup job and won them their first Senior Championship in 68 years, followed up by a first ever Ulster title. [1] Errigal Ciarán approached him to take over as manager in 2006 and he won a Senior Championship with them. [1] Then he moved 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 the Ulster SFC final for 26 years, losing eventually to Armagh in a replay. [3] [4] It was only Fermanagh's second appearance in the final of the competition in 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 won a first Ulster Senior title for 25 years. [1] He took Monaghan from Division 3 to Division 1 in successive seasons. [1] Under his stewardship, he led Monaghan to a first win over Kerry in 27 years during the 2015 National League. They also lost narrowly against Dublin in the same year's League semi-final. [1] They reached the Ulster final in the next two seasons, which was three final appearances in a row, the first time in 92 years for Monaghan. [1] He managed the county to four All Ireland Senior quarter finals and took them to the 2018 All Ireland Senior semi final, only losing by a point to Tyrone before he left in June 2019. [6]

He was appointed manager of the men's Senior football team at Watty Graham's GAC, Glen, a club near Maghera in Derry, in October 2020; this was his first job since he left Monaghan in June 2019. [7] With Glen, he won three Derry Senior Football Championships in a row 2021, 2022 and 2023, their first ever county titles. In 2022 and 2023, he led them to the Ulster Club Championship titles and in 2024 the All Ireland Club Championship title.

He was linked with the Meath job when Andy McEntee left the post in June 2022. [8]

O'Rourke was announced as the Tyrone boss on the 10th of September 2024.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 O'Connor, Christy (16 July 2015). "Friday profile: Malachy O'Rourke — Up on the high-wire getting the job done". Irish Independent.
  2. ↑ "O'Rourke is new Fermanagh manager". BBC. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "Fermanagh 1-11 Derry 1-09". RTÉ. 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  4. ↑ "Owens goal puts Fermanagh into Ulster SFC Final". Irish Independent. 22 June 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
  5. ↑ "O'Rourke resigns as Fermanagh manager". The Irish Times. 22 July 2010.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "Malachy O'Rourke: Glen appoint former Farney boss as new manager". BBC. 24 October 2020.
  8. ↑ McKeon, Conor (7 June 2022). "Malachy O'Rourke tops shortlist to replace Andy McEntee in Meath hot seat". Irish Independent.
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