17 Facts About Diarmuid O'Carroll

Diarmuid O'Carroll was born on 16 March 1987 and is an Irish retired professional footballer, who manages Newcastle United U21.

Diarmuid O'Carroll 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.

Diarmuid O'Carroll started his youth career with Home Farm before joining Celtic's Youth Academy, he had featured for Celtic's reserve side for several years, but did not play for the first team.

In 2007, he had a loan spell with Ross County FC and, in July 2008, it was announced that O'Carroll had signed a one-year deal with English League Two side Morecambe.

Diarmuid O'Carroll scored his first goal for Raith as a trialist away to Forfar Athletic in a pre-season friendly on 13 July 2010.

In November 2010, after returning from Iceland Diarmuid O'Carroll signed a pre-contract agreement with Glenavon in Northern Ireland.

Diarmuid O'Carroll signed for Cliftonville on 3 January 2012 [1] and scored on his debut at Leonidas [2] O'Carroll worked as a youth coach for the club's academy as well as a consultant for the agency The Copius Group.

On 7 May 2014, Diarmuid O'Carroll was confirmed to have left Cliftonville after winning back to back league titles and league cups.

Diarmuid O'Carroll then joined Crusaders, signing a two-year pre-contract for the club.

On 23 November 2018, Diarmuid O'Carroll came out of retirement, signing a short-term deal at Dungannon Swifts.

Diarmuid O'Carroll has completed a number of coaching badges and has a long-term ambition of pursuing this area after he retires from playing.

Diarmuid O'Carroll left the position in June 2019, to become the Director of Coaching for Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Club.

On 7 June 2021, Diarmuid O'Carroll joined Morecambe as a first-team coach, joining Stephen Robinson after they had worked together at Motherwell.

On 22 February 2022, Diarmuid O'Carroll was appointed as Robinson's assistant manager at St Mirren.

On 13 March 2023, Diarmuid O'Carroll joined Michael O'Neill's backroom staff with the Northern Ireland national team as a senior coach, whilst remaining in his assistant manager role at St Mirren.

Diarmuid 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.

Diarmuid 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.