DUBLIN MANAGER Dessie Farrell says Jack McCaffrey and Paul Mannion will be returning to the senior football squad next season.
The pair have been key absentees for the Dubs in recent years after they both opted to step away from inter-county football. 2015 Footballer of the Year McCaffrey last featured for the side in their replay victory over Kerry in the 2019 All-Ireland final, while Mannion’s last appearance was their 2020 All-Ireland win against Mayo in 2020.
“The good news is we’ll have Jack McCaffrey and Paul Mannion rejoining the squad next year,” Farrell told Dublin GAA after today’s quarter-final action in the Dublin senior championship.
“That’ll be a great help to us in terms of the continued development and evolution of the team.
“We’re hoping before the championship ends that we’ll have a sprinkling of one or two other new players to bring in and we look forward to the season ahead.”
DubsTV caught up with Dublin Senior Football manager Dessie Farrell after this weekend’s #GoAheadDSF1 quarter final action! #UpTheDubs pic.twitter.com/l8C5EldtDO
— Dublin GAA (@DubGAAOfficial) September 18, 2022
Three-time All-Star Mannion featured in Kilmacud Crokes’ quarter-final victory over Cuala on Saturday night, but was forced to withdraw after suffering an injury.
Elsewhere, the draw for the semi-finals of the Dublin Senior 1 football draw was conducted today, with Ballyboden facing Na Fianna while Thomas Davis will square off with Kilmacud Crokes.
The final-four pairings followed the quarter-final ties which took place this weekend. Kilmacud Crokes and Na Fianna were both victorious yesterday as they overcame Cuala and Whitehall Colmcille respectively.
Thomas Davis got the better of Castleknock earlier today, with Eamon Conroy grabbing a goal to help his side to a 1-12 to 0-5 win.
Here is the draw for the #GoAheadDSF1 semi finals: @Bodengaa v @clgNaFianna @tomasdaibhis v @KCrokesGAAClub pic.twitter.com/o9CiBwlNKx
— Dublin GAA (@DubGAAOfficial) September 18, 2022
In the other quarter-final, Ballyboden came out on top after a high-scoring 3-15 to 3-10 thriller with Ballinteer St John’s. Warren Egan grabbed a brace of goals for the winners while Darren O’Reilly also rattled the net as they survived a late rally from Ballinteer.
After building up a 10-point lead, Ballinteer posted 2-1 in four minutes to set up a grandstand finish with the goals coming from Fearghal Duffy and David Devereux.
But Ballyboden held on for a narrow win to progress to the semi-finals.
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Its thanks to Billy that our amateur boxing team setup and training regime is the envy of all. No wonder the US want to poach him. Without Billy we would not have had that medal haul in London 2012, and without Billy we wont be able to match it in Rio. Its not the IABA that success lies with, its Billy and his team. They’d be fools to not give him everything he wants and anything he needs to keep that success going.
The fact that our boxers stay amateur thanks to healthy funding of 40k and coaches etc all paid for helps. While boxers in other countries are forced into professional ranks in order to go into a full time set up. Here Boxers are afraid to leave the handy number in the amateur ranks, It is ridiculous that the public fawning all over a few bronze medals(third/fourth place) in a second tier competition while Andy Lee winning a proper world title goes nearly unnoticed.
Give him what he wants!! The boxers are consistently winning medals! No brainer here
what Danny said
Resolved soon.. What a joke they should ask Billy to name his price..
Excellent trainer, really good guy too.
Deserves as much as what Martin o neill/ keano etc getting. And I’ll bet what he’s asking is reasonable, his back room team as well. Smarten up IBBA.
If the Web summit is anything to go by Billy will be leaving soon.
It’s just madness that we cannot just secure this man! We have the best track record in amateur boxing in the world per capita, yet the boxing always struggles with funding! But we pump money into the athletics, for what?? So we can get to a few semi finals! Doesn’t make sense at all!
wat time is joe ward for ghtin