Diarmuid O'Carroll
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Diarmuid O'Carroll[1] | ||
Date of birth | 16 March 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Killarney,[2] Ireland | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | St Mirren (assistant manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
1995–2002 | Killarney Athletic | ||
2002–2003 | Home Farm | ||
2003–2006 | Celtic | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003–2008 | Celtic | 0 | (0) |
2007 | → Ross County (loan) | 15 | (2) |
2008–2009 | Morecambe | 29 | (5) |
2009–2010 |
Airdrie United | 30 | (5) |
2010 | Valur | 6 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Glenavon | 33 | (4) |
2012–2014 | Cliftonville | 65 | (12) |
2014–2016 | Crusaders | 53 | (13) |
2018 | Dungannon Swifts | 4 | (0) |
Total | 231 | (41) | |
International career | |||
2006 | Republic of Ireland U21 | 4 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2015–2017 | Crusaders Strikers | ||
2019 | Glentoran Women | ||
2019–2021 | Motherwell U18 | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Diarmuid O'Carroll (born 16 March 1987 in Killarney) is an Irish retired professional footballer, who is currently assistant manager at St Mirren. He has worked in various roles in football such as for the Irish Football Association as Club and Community Development Officer within the Football Development Department.
Club career
Diarmuid O'Carroll started his youth career with
In the summer of 2009 O'Carroll had many trials, including one at
In November 2010, after returning from Iceland O'Carroll signed a pre-contract agreement with Glenavon in Northern Ireland. He became eligible to play from January 2011.[3] In an Irn-Bru league cup match on 20 September 2011, O'Carroll scored a double hat trick[9] Until this time, he played for amateur side Dollingstown to maintain his match fitness.
He signed for Cliftonville on 3 January 2012 [1] and scored on his debut at Leonidas [2] O'Carroll also worked as a youth coach for the club's academy as well as a consultant for the agency The Copius Group.[10]
Later career
On 7 May 2014, O'Carroll was confirmed to have left Cliftonville after winning back to back league titles and league cups. He then joined
On 23 November 2018, O'Carroll came out of retirement, signing a short-term deal at Dungannon Swifts.
O’Carroll has completed a number of coaching badges and has a long-term ambition of pursuing this area after he retires from playing. On 27 February 2019, he was appointed manager of Glentoran Women.[11] He left the position in June 2019, to become the Director of Coaching for Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Club.[12]
On 23 September 2019 he took over the role of coach to Motherwell FC's Under 18s. This was a post that had briefly been filled by Darren O’Dea who had moved on to coach the under 18s with Celtic.[13]
On 7 June 2021, O'Carroll joined
On 22 February 2022, O’Carroll was appointed as Robinson's assistant manager at
International career
O'Carroll has been capped at every youth level and under 21 for Ireland, but has never played for the Republic of Ireland at full international level.[2]
Charity work
O'Carroll started his charity work by running a half-marathon in aid of Suicide Awareness in June 2010 in Belfast and continued that in October of that year by running the Dublin City Marathon for the same cause.[citation needed]
Honours
- Cliftonville
- Crusaders
- NIFL Premiership (2): 2014–15, 2015–16
References
- ^ "Diarmuid O'Carroll". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ a b "O'Carroll stepping back to go forward". Irish Independent. 27 December 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Glenavon sign former Airdrie striker Diarmuid O'Carroll". BBC Sport. 24 November 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ "O'Carroll makes point with strike". celticfc.net. Archived from the original on 15 December 2007.
- ^ "Morecambe snap up Celtic striker". BBC Sport. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
- ^ "Report – Rovers 1 Hibernian FC 0". Archived from the original on 31 July 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009..
- ^ "Striker O'Carroll joins Diamonds". BBC Sport. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- ^ "O'Carroll, Diarmuid – The Celtic Wiki".
- ^ "Glenavon FC News | All the Official News from Mourneview Park | Page 3". Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
- ^ a b Diarmuid O'Carroll profile at LinkedIn, linkedin.com
- ^ Diarmuid O'Carroll is new Head Coach of the Cup Winners, glentoran.com, 27 February 2019
- ^ Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Club Welcomes Diarmuid O’Carroll, downtownlvsc.com, 29 June 2019
- ^ DIARMUID O’CARROLL JOINS COACHING STAFF, motherwellfc.co.uk, 23 August 2019
- ^ "STEPHEN ROBINSON ANNOUNCED AS NEW SHRIMPS BOSS". morecambefc.com. 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Managing against Spurs a career highlight: Former Cliftonville striker Diarmuid O'Carroll". The Irish News. 11 January 2022.
- ^ "ST MIRREN DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE STEPHEN ROBINSON AS NEW MANAGER". stmirren.com. 22 January 2022.
- ^ "DIARMUID O'CARROLL NAMED IN NORTHERN IRELAND BACKROOM TEAM". stmirren.com. 13 March 2023.
External links
- Diarmuid O'Carrol at Soccerbase