GAA Hall of Fame recognition for Colm O'Rourke

Colm O'Rourke is one of six more players inducted into the GAA Hall of Fame for 2019 covering the period 1985 to 1989.

The addition of these six new Gaelic games stars to the Hall of Fames brings the total number of inductees to 54 across hurling and football.

This year, for the first time since the Hall of Fame was launched in 2013, all three hurlers and three footballers from the five-year time-frame 1985 to 1989 were announced in the same ceremony.

Hurling greats Nicky English (Tipperary), Conor Hayes (Galway) and Terence ‘Sambo’ McNaughton (Antrim) join an illustrious line-up in the GAA Museum Hall of Fame. On the football side, this year’s inductees are Denis ‘Ógie’ Moran (Kerry), Colm O’Rourke (Meath) and Larry Tompkins (Cork).

COLM O'ROURKE FACTFILE

The Skyrne clubman won back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 1987 and 1988 and was named Footballer of the Year in 1991.

A three-time Allstar in 1983, 1988 and 1991, he won five Leinster championships and three National Leagues. He made 59 championship appearances for the Royal County, scoring 16 goals and 105 points.

With Skyrne won two Meath senior championships in 1992 and 1993. As a student at UCD he won a Sigerson Cup medal in 1979 and he also guided Simonstown Gaels to Keegan Cuo success and managed the International Rules team.