1991 Gaelic Athletic Association All Star Awards Winners (Football): Colm O'Rourke, Mick Deegan, Tommy Dowd, Keith Barr, Martin O'Connell

Chapters: Colm O'rourke, Mick Deegan, Tommy Dowd, Keith Barr, Martin O'connell, Bernard Flynn, Brian Stafford, Tommy Carr, Ross Carr. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Colm O'Rourke (Irish: ) is a retired inter-county Irish Gaelic footballer for County Meath in Ireland and a panellist on RTE's The Sunday Game. Despite becoming famous for playing for Meath, O'Rourke is not a Meathman by birth, he was born in the small parish of Aughavas within County Leitrim. He moved with his family as a youngster from Leitrim to County Meath due to the Land Commission granting land to westerners in Meath and Kildare. O'Rourke is a descendant of the great Ui Ruairc royal house of Breffni. He has, however, been accepted by the people of Skryne in Meath as one of their own forty years after arriving from Aughavas. He is the secondary school principal in St. Patrick's Classical School in Navan where he has trained the Gaelic football to numerous successes at provincial and national level throughout the past two decades. He has also managed his own sports shop in Navan Shopping Centre, Colm O'Rourke Sports, during this period. He started working on The Sunday Game with RTE in 1991, and has simultaneously been a regular contributor of sports columns in national newspapers. He is continuously being linked with the Meath GAA manager's job, previously held by another man with strong Leitrim connections, Sean Boylan. O'Rourke son Shane O'Rourke is a current senior footballer with Meath while his nephew Paddy O'Rourke is the new goalkeeper for Meath . O'Rourke is now retired from his footballing career. He won two All-Ireland medals with Meath, in 1987 and 1988. He also won five Leinster Championship medals and three National Football League wins. He managed the Irish tea...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=525954