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2012 All-Ireland winner Paul Durcan. Evan Logan/INPHO

New Sligo boss McEntee adds Donegal All-Ireland winner to backroom team

Paul ‘Papa’ Durcan will serve as goalkeeping coach for the 2021 campaign.

FORMER DONEGAL ALL-Ireland winner Paul Durcan has been added to Tony McEntee’s Sligo backroom team for the 2021 season. 

Durcan will be the goalkeeping coach under Armagh native McEntee, who was confirmed as the new Sligo boss last month.

A Celtic Cross winner with Donegal in 2012, Durcan also lifted the All-Ireland club title with Ballyboden St Enda’s in 2016.

After spending a number of years living in Qatar, Durcan returned home and rejoined the Donegal panel as sub keeper for the past two seasons. 

He currently lives in north Sligo and transferred to local outfit Drumcliffe-Rosses Point earlier in 2020. They reached the club’s first ever Sligo SFC final this year, losing by three points to kingpins Tourlestrane.

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 8:36 AM

    Another fella who wasted his talent. Similarly to anthony stokes. Also stephen ireland, those 3 should have backboned the irish team for the last 10 years.

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 8:39 AM

    @Gareth Ward: not sure on Stokes i think he might have been found out early in his career that he was below average but the other 2 ya

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 9:05 AM

    @Wheresmyjumper: Maybe ya, but he had the talent as a young lad and just didn’t work hard enough at it! The other 2 though, imagine if they were our midfield partnership for the last 12 years!

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 9:15 AM

    @Gareth Ward:
    We achieved more with wheels in midfield than we ever could of with Gibson or Ireland, Glenn is a pro who wanted to play . Gibson never gave it his all to any team he played for. How Stephen Ireland was treated by both Man City and the FAI is a totally different story . Stephen Ireland could of achieved a lot more in the game and I’ve a lot of sympathy for him and his story . Gibson however I wouldn’t trust him to hand out the jerseys and has never looked like a player who cared about anything except for a gargle.

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 11:15 AM

    @Shane Lad: Ya Whelan has been grand like when we’ve had no one else. But what im saying is if Gibson had delivered on his potential he would have been so much better than Whelan

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 12:57 PM

    @Gareth Ward:”grand when we had no one else” that’s harsh, whelan a fantastic pro put a few them boys to shame, it’s not as if we never had any other options in midfeild either and we had throw poor Glenn there he was there on merit.

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 6:08 PM

    @Gareth Ward: Harsh on Warren. He’s only 21.

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 3:04 PM

    @Wheresmyjumper: He wasn’t found out, he was fond of the drink which most young Irish players were back then.

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 12:30 AM

    A tented lad on his day but wasted his career I’m afraid

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 9:19 AM

    We achieved more with wheels in midfield over the last few years than we ever would of with Ireland or Gibson. Glenn is a pro who wants to play . I’ve a lot of sympathy for Stephen Ireland and his story. The way he was treated by city and the FAI was disgusting and he could of achieved a lot more in the game . As for Gibson, he’s never given his all to any team he’s been in because he doesn’t care.

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    Aug 22nd 2020, 6:11 PM

    @Shane Lad: I would say taking everything Stephen Ireland says as gospel truth is very dangerous. There’s a reason his career went the way it did after packing in Ireland and then City- perceived “disgusting” treatment with both can’t have applied.

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    Aug 23rd 2020, 3:06 PM

    @Shane Lad: “The way he was treated by city and the FAI was disgusting ”

    Yes because what happened with Stephen Ireland was everyone elses fault but him, pull the other one Shane.

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