Malachy O'Rourke

Malachy O'Rourke is a Gaelic football manager and former player for the Fermanagh county team. He has been manager of the senior Tyrone county team since 2024.

He previously managed Fermanagh and Monaghan.

Career He played for Fermanagh for more than ten years, but was only on the winning side twice in that period in the championship (both time against Antrim).

He left his club Derrylin in the early 1990s and got a transfer to Errigal Ciarán because he had moved to Ballygawley, County Tyrone, on account of him teaching at St Joseph's, Enniskillen, and his wife teaching in Derrylatinee Eglish, so Ballygawley in South Tyrone worked for the pair of them. His first season featured a first appearance in the Ulster SFC final for 26 years, losing eventually to Armagh in a replay. It was only Fermanagh's second appearance in the final of the competition in 63 years, knocking out Monaghan and Derry along the way.

O'Rourke took the Monaghan job in 2013, and won a first Ulster Senior title for 25 years.

He was appointed manager of the men's Senior football team at Watty Graham's GAC, Glen, a club near Maghera in Derry, in October 2020; this was his first job since he left Monaghan in June 2019. With Glen, he won three Derry Senior Football Championships in a row 2021, 2022 and 2023, their first ever county titles. In 2022 and 2023, he led them to the Ulster Club Championship titles and in 2024 the All Ireland Club Championship title.

O'Rourke was linked with the Meath job when Andy McEntee left the post in June 2022.

On 10 September 2024, he was announced as Tyrone manager. This meant he departed his role on the Football Review Committee.