Colm O'Rourke

O'Rourke became the Meath manager this year. In his interview with Tommy Tiernan, O'Rourke spoke to his former pupil about his personal life and coaching the ...

RTÉ viewers were full of praise for O'Rourke with one saying: "Colm O'Rourke is pure chaotic". "We were farmers, you worked hard you got on with things and there was nobody there to give too much in the way of positive affirmation and you were expected to get on with things yourself." Speaking of his mental health, O'Rourke said: "I came from a big family and in a big family situation you're more or less expected to get on with things yourself and there was no molly-coddling.

COLM O'ROURKE was the first guest on The Tommy Tiernan Show on Saturday night.And even before what became an insightful, lively interview got underway.

Another said: "Colm O’Rourke and Tommy - priceless. The lorry driver stories are an under appreciated genre. One joked: "How did Colm O'Rourke teach Tommy ? What an eventful life he has lived, on & off the pitch. And as if to bring the chat full-circle, the host quipped: "I would have loved, one of the times you were throwing me out of class, to turn around and say, 'one day, you're going to be on my chat show.'" "1 of the best players to ever play the game of Gaelic Football.

Colm O'Rourke discusses all-things Meath football in a fascinating interview with Tommy Tiernan, and had the perfect response to a question about Dublin.

Maybe there's no David Clifford, but the whole idea as far as I'm concerned is that we get these individual parts and that the total becomes a lot greater than the sum of the individual units. You have to see something happening." And that is something I'd like to see coming back." "And in our time - and that's a phrase I hate. I never use that with our team, because you get fed up listening to these fellas, 'in the past, we used to do this and that' - but you measured yourself by whether you're able to go into Croke Park and play against Dublin. "Obviously I want to see Meath winning, or any team I'm involved in.

Meath Manager Colm O'Rourke opened up to his former student and comedian Tommy Tiernan as he spoke honestly about losing his competitive streak in recent ...

Colm said, but spoke fondly of the "characters" he would encounter in his home county. Great to see this side of Colm O Rourke . The pair spoke about their Meath heritage and what it was like to come from a rural area. Another wrote: “Fantastic chat between Tommy Tiernan & Colm O Rourke his former teacher, who put him out of class once or twice. the comedian asked his guest. [GAA](https://www.rsvplive.ie/all-about/gaa) manager once taught Tommy geography in the Navan secondary school where he was principal.

Meath manager Colm O'Rourke admitted Saturday's chastening 11-points defeat to Derry was a reality check for the Royals after victories in their opening two ...

"It was a step up in class to a degree but I think we answered it very well but also as we would have expected. "Again, a lot of it due to inexperience, players not playing at this level but there is a lot to be learned from that. It may not come all of a sudden, we may have to be patient with them, but it will come. "We’ll be ready," he added, "We’ll take what we can from tonight. Our tackling in the forward line and tracking of players was not good. Maybe tonight was probably a more accurate reflection of exactly where we are at the moment.

One of those rude awakenings the league can throw up for a team in development and still finding its feet, Meath's cascading attacking play - evident in ...

They were dealt a pre-match blow with the absence of forward Shane Walsh, who failed to recover in time from a hamstring injury which saw his early substitution two weeks earlier in Navan. "Yeah, we got a much better performance and we had hoped to get it. They were already struggling when in the last few seconds of the first half an intricate home team move brought a fine goal from Niall Toner, the last pass laid off by Conor Doherty. Having scored three goals in the previous round against Clare before half time this was a reality check, although they would have expected a step up facing Derry. But it was a false impression. But mostly Meath were dealing with Derry in possession, led off by their powerful midfield pairing of Conor Glass and Brendan Rogers.

COLM O'ROURKE felt Meath got a harsh lesson from a rampant Derry side — who cemented their status as Division 2 promotion favourites with a statem.

But I would hope we take the learnings and I am quite confident of a response when we play Louth next week.” MEATH: H Hogan; A O’Neill, M Flood, H O’Higgins; J O’Connor, D Keogan, C Hickey; R Jones, B Conlon 0-1; C O’Sullivan, J Scully, D Campion; J Morris, D Lenihan 0-2, 1f, T O’Reilly 1-1. The Ulster champions made a mockery of predictions it would be a tight game between promotion rivals. Subs: O McWilliams 0-1 for McKaigue 58; S Downey for E Doherty 62; M Downey for Heron 68; L Murray for Loughlin 69; P McNeill for Glass 69. The rain poured down and made play difficult but Derry continued to pile on the points with a nice spread of scores. With a man of the stature of O’Rourke now in charge, Meath were expected to enjoy a honeymoon period — but it came to an abrupt end.