Colm O'Rourke Quotes

Ireland, Football Player
August 31, 1957

Colm O'Rourke is a retired Gaelic footballer and current sports broadcaster. His league and championship career with the Meath senior team spanned twenty years from 1975 to 1995.

The only acceptable recipients of money from the GAA are administrators, coaches, security, bar and catering staff, hawkers, programme sellers, pirates, general scavengers, some managers... but no players. Stalin or Fidel Castro would love the way the GAA has and is being run. Even if something is wrong nobody questions it.

Colm O'Rourke
- Money
- GAA
- No Players
The true heart of the GAA pumps in parishes and it's a model the association should never change

Colm O'Rourke
- Heart
- Change
- Model

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

Colm O'Rourke
- Children
- Fire
- Photograph
In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

Colm O'Rourke
- Person
- Special
- To Do
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

Colm O'Rourke
- Get
- Cousins
- Counties