Shane O'Rourke (born 3 May 1988) is a former

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who played for the Simonstown Gaels club and for the Meath county team. He is the son of Meath footballer

Colm O'Rourke Colm O'Rourke (born 31 August 1957) is a Gaelic football Manager (Gaelic games), manager, former player, retired secondary school principal, Broadcasting of sports events, sports broadcaster and columnist. His National Football League (Ireland), ...

and a cousin of former Meath goalkeeper Paddy O'Rourke. Shane O'Rourke was linked to a move to the

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, Queensland to play in the

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championship but he was not believed to be interested in the move. O'Rourke has won a Hogan Cup medal and also captained his side to the All-Ireland Colleges final in 2006; however, they lost the final to Abbey C.B.S. As of 2015, he was teaching physical education at St Patrick's Classical School, of which his father

Colm Colm (; ) is a masculine given name of Irish origin. It is not an Irish version of ''Colin'', but like '' Callum'' and ''Malcolm'' derives from a Gaelic variation on ''columba'', the Latin word for " dove". The reason for the name's use for o ...

is principal.

Honours

* Meath Senior Football Championship (2):

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, 2017 *

Leinster Senior Football Championship The Leinster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship and shortened to Leinster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster GAA, Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Asso ...

(1): 2010 * Hogan Cup (1): 2004 * Leinster Colleges Senior Football Championship (2): 2004, 2006 *Leinster Minor Football Championship (1): 2006 *Meath Footballer of the Year (1): 2016

References

1988 births Living people Bective Gaelic footballers Irish schoolteachers Meath inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Meath-gaelic-football-bio-stub