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Colm O'Rourke
9 quotes
“And we could poke fun at them about by-passing the toll gates and 10 shilling notes and driving up on Ferguson tractors and supplying them with maps of Dublin and Nelson's Pillar not being there anymore.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Outlining his ways to treat supporters of Cavan ahead of the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final, the county's second since the 1960s.
“If they waited a couple of hours they could have commemorated two massacres in Croke Park.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On RTÉ, 21 November 2020, stating that a Dublin win against Meath's 15 players was like the actual killing of 14 people.
“They always feel a bit isolated up there in the north-west.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: O'Rourke on teams in that part of Ireland. Quoted by Mary Hannigan in The Irish Times on 27 August 2012.
“This union, which is dominated by some socialist philosophy, is not fit for purpose.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI), Sunday Independent, 25 October 2020
“I often got a belt from my mother with a wet dish cloth for kicking a ball through a window.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A disagreement with Oisín McConville over the best gifts to give loved ones at half-time during the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. Quoted in The Irish Times in December 2020
“The Miraculous Medal around his neck is obviously not working all the time anyway.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As co-commentator during the first half of the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, when Martin McHugh's scapular broke through his jersey and flapped loosely in the breeze (erroneously referred to by O'…
“I see the Taoiseach keeping a very close eye on the Donegal team, obviously looking for prospective candidates for Donegal in the next election.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They're like the grim reaper when anybody comes [to Croke Park] they just put them away with ruthless efficiency.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Dublin county football team, RTÉ, 5 December 2020
“There is no hope for anybody else. You might as well give up the ghost now.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Dublin's dominance, RTÉ, February 2020