Carr and O’Rourke take the reins at Donegal


DONEGAL’S search for a new inter-county management team has come to an end with the appointment of Paddy Carr and Aidan O’Rourke. Their names were ratified at a meeting of the County Committee tonight, bringing to an end a lengthy wait to find a successor to Declan Bonner, who stepped down in the wake of […]


Mickey Donnelly added to Down management team


FORMER Tyrone minor manager Mickey Donnelly has been added to Conor Laverty’s backroom team. The Kilcoo man, who also has Martin Clarke and Declan Morgan in his coaching panel, has snagged a man who has been involved in the Mourne County previously having managed Mayobridge. As well as the Tyrone minors, Donnelly has been manager […]


CAHAL CARVILL: A foregone conclusion?


HANS Christian Anderson’s literary folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” was first published in April 1837 and tells the story of a vain Emperor who spends lavishly on clothing at the expense of state matters. Posing as weavers, two swindlers offer to supply the Emperor with magnificent clothes that are invisible to those who are stupid or […]


McGeeney to stay on as Armagh manager for 2023


KIERAN McGeeney will manage the Armagh senior intercounty footballers until at least the end of the 2023 after he was handed a one-year extension to his contract this evening. It will be McGeeney’s ninth year in charge of the team (he was appointed in late 2014) and the news will come as no major surprise […]