FORMER LOUTH AND Westmeath boss Colin Kelly is to take charge of the Wicklow footballers in 2022.
Kelly will take reins of a third county side after Wicklow revealed last night that he has been appointed as their new boss.
He fills the vacancy created by the departure of Davy Burke in August, the Kildare native having been in charge for two seasons.
Kelly was at the helm of Louth between 2014 and 2017, steering the Wee County to successive league promotions in his last two years. He was then in charge of Westmeath for the 2018 season.
Kelly will finalise his Wicklow management team in the coming weeks, while Eamonn Scallan has been ratified again as the Garden County’s hurling boss for 2022.
Colin Kelly has been appointed as Wicklow Senior Football Manager for 2022.https://t.co/1GhdfVNrmy#officialwicklowgaa #wicklowgaa pic.twitter.com/FIjmlXF50n
— Official Wicklow GAA (@wicklowgaa) October 15, 2021
Meanwhile Galway defender Johnny Duane yesterday announced his retirement from the inter-county game.
Duane made his senior championship debut against Mayo in the 2011 Connacht semi-final, while his last appearance came against the same opposition in this year’s Connacht decider, coming on as a late sub in Croke Park.
The St. James’ club man also represented New York in the 2016 championshi while he captained the Galway minor team in 2008 and won an All-Ireland U21 medal as a defender in 2011.
Its been a pleasure @Galway_GAA
— Johnny Duane (@jduane6) October 15, 2021
Thanks to all my teammates, managers, family, friends, and @galway_st for all the support over the last 10 years.
I have made some great memories and lifelong friends.
Sin è ✅ pic.twitter.com/KtdogM6x81
Up the Dubs
indeed…but last weeks game was like a dublin team 20 years ago. +7 victory for Cork. Cunningham needs to go.
Yep, there is something wrong in the camp.
@gold3n: Well in the game now, Nash really kept Cork in it with those saves.
Hey, listen I really hope we do well but I think we’ve taken a step back with this new managment setup. Don’t forget Cork have also been shocking over the past 18 months.
Just when we think we’re going to have a good year we lose to what was being described as the worst Dublin team of all time… More fake news…
Cork are in the same boat as us. They have struggled the past 18/24 months. Beating by a bad Wexford team last year??
Great to see our lads competing. Was expecting a hammering after last week. If it wasn’t for 2 great saves by Nash we could be well ahead.
Pa Horgan is having a shocker out there tonight.
Is this on TV?
Eir sport.
Anthony Dalys commentary is a disgrace here totally one sided.
@John Carroll: Can you blame him considering how bad Cork were?
Could have stayed in it if Pa Horgan learned how to pick up the ball in training for the penalty! Could have Used a Nash Rocket instead of a bobbly one.
@John Boyle Cork like any other county are entitled to be as good or as bad as they want over the seventhy minutes but they should like any other county be entitled to a fair non bias commentary and if Daly cant do that he should head off back to Clare and milk his cows!!!
Great win for Dublin after the poor result v tipp last week. Very poor cork side who will struggle to stay up after that performance. Great to see the dubs compete and show hunger and commitment. Something to build on. Looks like a toss up between dubs rebels and banner for the drop.