DARREN GLEESON, TIPPERARY’S 2016 All-Ireland winning goalkeeper, has tonight been named as the new Antrim hurling manager.
Gleeson, who retired from inter-county hurling in 2017 after lifting the Liam MacCarthy Cup twice with the Premier County, was appointed on a three-year term at Monday’ county committee meeting.
The 38-year-old had previously been involved with Antrim hurling for the past two years and now takes over the top job ahead of the 2020 season.
Antrim GAA said Gleeson will announce his backroom team over the next couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, Carlow GAA has this evening announced that both Colm Bonnar and Turlough O’Brien have been ratified as the county’s senior hurling and football managers respectively for the coming year.
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That’s some spin.
Brilliant news. Good times ahead for us hopefully!
@John Buckley:
Hiring means remuneration. Isn’t remuneration against the GAA rules?
@Jamie Bent: Indeed hopefully provided all the lads from the City and the lads from the Glens get on together !
Well well, the bottom feeders are up early this morning.Best of luck to him,and indeed to the hop out of bed straight onto the high moral ground,brigade.
@Decko49: done nothing wrong?! Ha
@David Kenneally: So tell us what he done wrong?
@Decko49: pleaded guilty in an Irish Court to robbing 10k from a man. Given a 3 and a half year sentence… Suspended due to his GAA involvement
@Trevor Beacom: Trevor I mentioned about people publicly abusing Peter Casey. Calling him a druggie when he done nothing wrong. I said if they do that to somebody that done nothing wrong then Gleeson was going to get Lots of abuse. I said in my opinion he deserved a second chance. Another poster saud above ” done nothing wrong. Ha ” . For some reason my initial comment is deleted.
@Decko49: don’t worry my original comment posted last evening was deleted also :)
@Trevor Beacom: Why delete them? I will be honest I don’t know what you posted. But I actually said he deserves another chance.
@Decko49: who knows, I put up what I posted above
Like most on here I’ve no idea the details of what he did in his private life at the end of the day so good luck up there lad