Skip to content

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

Another quote →

Source and credibility

Wikiquote does not flag this quote as disputed or misattributed.

Source: 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.
Source quality: Source identified Names the work or year, but without an exact location.

More by Colm O'Rourke

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.

All Colm O'Rourke quotes →

More quotes by Colm O'Rourke

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.

All Colm O'Rourke quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Colm O'Rourke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.