Darren Burke

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Darren Burke (born in Dublin on May 13, 1983) was an Irish soccer player who used to play for Bohemians in the League of Ireland.

Darren was a defender who made his first team debut for Bohs in a FAI League Cup tie away to Drogheda United in May 2003.

Known to his team-mates as "skipper", Darren is a former Gorey Rangers and St. Joseph's Boys player.

A graduate of the Wexford Youths, which also produced players like Kevin Doyle, William Doyle and Damien Doyle (no relations to Ollie Doyle of Kenagh), Darren developed as an accomplished sweeper under the management of Michael Wallace. At around the same time, Welsh manager, Bobby Gould was trying to mould star player, Gary Speed into an effective sweeper, whilst many Welsh fans looked enviously across the channel to what they considered to be football's equivalent of J.P.R. Williams.

Regarded by a number of local observers as Wexford's version of Der Kaiser, Franz Anton Beckenbauer, Darren's style of play in the latter years could be described as being more akin to that of Franz and Anton Ferdinand.