Dominic Corrigan (Gaelic footballer)

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| irish = Damhnaic Ó Corragáin

| sport = Gaelic football

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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). He then went to Jordanstown, winning an All-Ireland Colleges Trench Cup medal in 1984. He moved home to Enniskillen in 1987.

A member of a family of eight, Corrigan married Mary (née McCabe) from Aghadrumsee. Their first child, Tomás Corrigan, would go on to play for Fermanagh.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/when-small-fermanagh-victories-mean-as-much-as-all-irelands-do-to-dublin-1.3089509|title=When small Fermanagh victories mean as much as All-Irelands do to Dublin|newspaper=The Irish Times|first=Malachy|last=Clerkin|date=20 May 2017}} He has another son, Ruáirí, who is also a Gaelic footballer.

Playing career

Corrigan is a Kinawley clubman.{{cite news |last=Loughran |first=Neil |date=19 October 2021 |title=Dominic Corrigan open to inter-county return in 2022 after Leitrim SFC success |work=The Irish News |url=https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2021/10/19/news/dominic-corrigan-open-to-inter-county-return-in-2022-after-leitrim-sfc-success-2481972/}} He made his debut for Kinawley as an eleven-year-old goalkeeper in 1973.{{cite news|url=https://fermanaghherald.com/2021/12/corrigan-is-coming-home/|title=Corrigan is coming home|work=Fermanagh Herald|first=Katrina|last=Brennan|date=9 December 2021}}

Corrigan played as a full-forward for Fermanagh. 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. 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.

Ten years later, at the age of thirty, he was one of two remaining players.{{cite news|url=https://www.hoganstand.com/article/index/66175|title=Corrigan, Dominic|work=Hogan Stand|date=19 June 1992|quote=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}}

Managerial career

Corrigan first picked up his whistle{{what?|date=August 2022}} at St Michael's College, Enniskillen in the 1980s and went on to become "synonymous with Gaelic football" there.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2016/10/22/news/dominic-corrigan-the-man-in-charge-of-fermanagh-s-football-factory-750265/|title=Dominic Corrigan: The man in charge of St Michael's, Enniskillen football factory|work=The Irish News|first=Colm|last=Bradley|date=22 October 2016}} He led the college to a first Hogan Cup (All-Ireland) title in 2019.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/enniskillen-s-st-michael-s-college-take-first-hogan-cup-title-1.3852174|title=Enniskillen's St Michael's College take first Hogan Cup title|newspaper=The Irish Times|first=Conor|last=McKenna|date=6 April 2019}}

Corrigan also managed Fermanagh and Sligo during the 2000s. He stepped down as Fermanagh manager in December 2003.{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2004/0116/178150-fermanagh/|title=Mulgrew takes over at Fermanagh|publisher=RTÉ|date=16 January 2004}} As a 41-year-old that year, he was the youngest inter-county manager on the scene.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/gaa-statistics-gaelic-football-is-a-young-man-s-game-on-and-off-the-field-1.2752053|title=GAA Statistics: Gaelic football is a young man's game — on and off the field|newspaper=The Irish Times|first=Eamon|last=Donoghue|date=11 August 2016|quote=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.}} He subsequently left his position as Sligo manager, due to difficult circumstances in 2006.{{cite news|url=https://www.hoganstand.com/article/index/84476|title=Breheny quits Sligo|work=Hogan Stand|date=10 October 2007}}

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. 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. He led Ballinamore to a Leitrim Senior Football Championship title in 2021 when he was close to sixty years of age. This was a first SFC title for Leitrim GAA's most successful club since 1990, as well as Corrigan's sixth county title. He has spoken in support of the quality of football played in Leitrim.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/two-tier-championship-must-be-part-of-football-revamp-dominic-corrigan-40958527.html|title=Two-tier championship must be part of football revamp — Dominic Corrigan|work=Irish Independent|first=Conor|last=McKeon|date=18 October 2021}}

References

External links

[https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-40724088.html "Dominic Corrigan wants GAA Special Congress to 'do what's right for our players'"] Paul Keane, Irish Examiner, 19 Oct 2021

{{succession box

| title = Fermanagh Senior Football Manager

| before = John Maughan

| after = Charlie Mulgrew

| years = 2001–2003

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{{succession box

| title = Sligo Senior Football Manager

| before = James Kearins

| after = Tommy Breheny

| years = 2004–2006

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