Colm O'Rourke has ruled himself out of the running for the vacant Meath football manager's job.

The Royal County legend and current Simonstown boss confirmed to RTÉ that he won't be putting his hat in the ring tor replace Andy McEntee, who stepped down after six years in charge last week.

"I'm involved in club management, I'm very happy in club management and I have been for quite a while," O'Rourke said.

"I did actually go for the Meath job on three occasions in the past and even somebody as stupid as I am would get the hint that when you're told 'No' on three occasions, I think that should put it to bed."

The RTÉ pundit also hit out at the abuse the outgoing manager received on social media.

"My beautiful wife Patricia has a very negative view toward managing the county team and with good reason when you see the upshot of Andy McEntee going and the social media abuse than has taken place," he continued.

"People who put in enormous time at their own expense - it's not like Pep Guardiola getting £15m a year - and then being subjected to that sort of thing by unnamed people.

"I can't understand how, in a society, we can allow people to abuse others without having given their name and address. It's just a shocking endictment of society in general."

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