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Colm O'Rourke Quotes

born 1957 Ireland

Colm O'Rourke (born 31 August 1957) is a sports broadcaster, columnist and former Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career at senior level for the Meath county team spanned twenty years from 1975 to 1995.

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The Miraculous Medal around his neck is obviously not working all the time anyway.

They always feel a bit isolated up there in the north-west.

If they waited a couple of hours they could have commemorated two massacres in Croke Park.

They're like the grim reaper when anybody comes [to Croke Park] they just put them away with ruthless efficiency.

This union, which is dominated by some socialist philosophy, is not fit for purpose.

There is no hope for anybody else. You might as well give up the ghost now.

I see the Taoiseach keeping a very close eye on the Donegal team, obviously looking for prospective candidates for Donegal in the next election.

I often got a belt from my mother with a wet dish cloth for kicking a ball through a window.

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.

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