Dominic Corrigan (Gaelic footballer)

Dominic Corrigan
Personal information
Irish name Damhnaic Ó Corragáin
Sport Gaelic football
Position Full-forward
Born 1962 (age 62–63)[1][2]
Height 5 ft 10[1] in (1.78 m)
Nickname Dom[2][3]
Occupation Schoolteacher
Club(s)
Years Club
 Kinawley
Colleges(s)
Years College
 Jordanstown
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
 Fermanagh

Dominic "Dom" Corrigan (born 1962) is a Gaelic footballer and manager. He played for Kinawley and the Fermanagh county team. He later managed the Fermanagh and Sligo teams.

Family life

Corrigan received his education at St Aidan's in Derrylin and at St Michael's College, Enniskillen (where he would later go on to teach at).[1] He then went to Jordanstown, winning an All-Ireland Colleges Trench Cup medal in 1984.[1] He moved home to Enniskillen in 1987.[2]

A member of a family of eight, Corrigan married Mary (née McCabe) from Aghadrumsee.[1] Their first child, Tomás Corrigan, would go on to play for Fermanagh.[1][4] He has another son, Ruáirí, who is also a Gaelic footballer.[2]

Playing career

Corrigan is a Kinawley clubman.[5] He made his debut for Kinawley as an eleven-year-old goalkeeper in 1973.[2]

Corrigan played as a full-forward for Fermanagh.[1] He was involved in the 1982 campaign, when he scored 1–3 against Tyrone in that year's Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) semi-final.[1] Between 1982 and 1992, Corrigan won a Division 2 County League medal, an Intermediate Championship medal in 1988 (to go with the won he one in 1981) and multiple underage souvenirs.[1]

Ten years later, at the age of thirty, he was one of two remaining players.[1]

Managerial career

Corrigan first picked up his whistle[clarification needed] at St Michael's College, Enniskillen in the 1980s and went on to become "synonymous with Gaelic football" there.[6] He led the college to a first Hogan Cup (All-Ireland) title in 2019.[7]

Corrigan also managed Fermanagh and Sligo during the 2000s.[5] He stepped down as Fermanagh manager in December 2003.[8] As a 41-year-old that year, he was the youngest inter-county manager on the scene.[9] He subsequently left his position as Sligo manager, due to difficult circumstances in 2006.[10]

Corrigan won several SFCs in club management. As of December 2021, he had won championships with five clubs in three counties, a total of seven County Senior Championship titles.[2] He was involved in coaching along with Pete McMahon as Castleblayney won a Monaghan crown in 1999 and 2000. Additionally, Corrigan managed Carrickmore in 2004, Clontibret in 2014, and Killyclogher in 2016.[5] He led Ballinamore to a Leitrim Senior Football Championship title in 2021 when he was close to sixty years of age.[5] This was a first SFC title for Leitrim GAA's most successful club since 1990, as well as Corrigan's sixth county title.[5] He has spoken in support of the quality of football played in Leitrim.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Corrigan, Dominic". Hogan Stand. 19 June 1992. Still only thirty years old, the fully-qualified Physical Education Teacher will be the most Senior hand on deck for Fermanagh this weekend as the provincial minnows
  2. ^ a b c d e f Brennan, Katrina (9 December 2021). "Corrigan is coming home". Fermanagh Herald.
  3. ^ "Why I quit: GAA manager explains shock decision". The Sligo Champion. 16 October 2007.
  4. ^ Clerkin, Malachy (20 May 2017). "When small Fermanagh victories mean as much as All-Irelands do to Dublin". The Irish Times.
  5. ^ a b c d e Loughran, Neil (19 October 2021). "Dominic Corrigan open to inter-county return in 2022 after Leitrim SFC success". The Irish News.
  6. ^ Bradley, Colm (22 October 2016). "Dominic Corrigan: The man in charge of St Michael's, Enniskillen football factory". The Irish News.
  7. ^ McKenna, Conor (6 April 2019). "Enniskillen's St Michael's College take first Hogan Cup title". The Irish Times.
  8. ^ "Mulgrew takes over at Fermanagh". RTÉ. 16 January 2004.
  9. ^ Donoghue, Eamon (11 August 2016). "GAA Statistics: Gaelic football is a young man's game — on and off the field". The Irish Times. The youngest manager back then — in just the third ever series of football quarter finals after the introduction of the qualifiers — was 41-year-old Dominic Corrigan.
  10. ^ "Breheny quits Sligo". Hogan Stand. 10 October 2007.
  11. ^ McKeon, Conor (18 October 2021). "Two-tier championship must be part of football revamp — Dominic Corrigan". Irish Independent.
Sporting positions
Preceded by Fermanagh Senior Football Manager
2001–2003 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Sligo Senior Football Manager
2004–2006 		Succeeded by