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Jim McCorry is aGaelic footballmanager and former player who played at senior level for theArmagh county team. He later managed both Armagh andDown, as well as several club teams, includingMayobridge andKilcoo, reaching anUlster Senior Club Football Championship final with both clubs.
McCorry managedMayobridge to aDown Senior Football Championship (SFC) title in 1999 (the club's first for more than eight decades) and then to anUlster Senior Club Football Championship (SFC) final in 2001 but the club dispensed with him shortly after that game.[1] He ledKilcoo to a Down SFC and then to victory againstCrossmaglen in the Ulster Club SFC.[2] He won an Ulster Club SFC while managing Kilcoo in 2012.[3] He also had a good record while managing Kilcoo in county finals.[4]
TheDown County Board appointed McCorry as manager ofthe county team in 2015 afterTony McEntee turned the role down.[2] Under McCorry's management, Down gainedpromotion to Division 1 of theNational Football League but slipped out of aAll-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifier toWexford (of Division 4) and McCorry quit as Down manager in 2015.[5][6][7] He said his position was "untenable".[8] He quit Down in 2015.[9]
McCorry became involved with theKieran McGeeney-managed Armagh in 2017, returning to the team he played for and later managed to aNational League Final in 1994.[10] In January 2019, he criticised college teams playing in theDr McKenna Cup.[11] He spent three years back with Armagh, where he was assistant manager, before suddenly departing for personal and family reasons in January 2021.[12][13]
He was appointedBurren manager in 2022 where he wants to play a more hand passing game and slow things down .[13]
McCorry is fromLurgan.[14] He hadkidney cancer in 2017 but had recovered by 2020.[15]
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| Preceded by ? | Armagh Senior Football Manager 1991–1995 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Down Senior Football Manager 2014–2015 | Succeeded by |