PAUL MCFLYNN has joined the Derry management team, it has been announced.
Derry have similarly confirmed that Enda Muldoon is staying on as part of the backroom team.
New boss Mickey Harte and coach Gavin Devlin will be also joined by former minor coach Murtagh O’Brien and strength and conditioning coach Matt Godfrey.
The identity of the goalkeeping coach has yet to be confirmed.
McFlynn, who works as a lecturer at Ulster University, represented Derry as a player for 10 seasons between 1997 and 2006.
He has previous experience coaching Armagh and managing Creggan.
Meanwhile, it was confirmed earlier today that former Derry interim boss Ciaran Meenagh has joined Down’s backroom team.
Well done Katie! The pride of Ireland
@Brian Dunne: she’s a class act. Croker would be electric. Most wouldn’t see the boxing ha but electric none the less.
@Sean Partidge: Very true that even the people of Bray/ Wicklow direction can’t watch one of their own cant do it without having to subscribe to a channel ( around 8€ ish)
@Colette Kearns: that’s the nature of prof boxing. Big fights being PPV . It’s how ‘one of their own’ get paid after all. National broadcasters don’t have an automatic right to broadcast ‘one of their own’ for free.
Well done Katie. Unbelievable record. If Croke Park goes ahead should consider retiring while still ahead afterwards. Get out while ahead. Huge future promoting the game and mentoring other women.
Proper Irish legend, so proud of her.
Fantastic record…. Hopefully she gets her dream to retire as champion in Croke Park..
@Peadár Ó’Cearnacháin: the neighbours will reject to it I’m sure
Well done Katie.
She is unreal. Fair play
One word. LEGEND.
Roll on Croker, Excellent Boxer
Well done Katie, the GAA will be rubbing their paws….
Fantastic Katie. We’ll done. Great news
@Anna Carr: Well. Bloomin autocorrect lol
And to think people idolised that Gob##ite McGreggor, pound for pound the best fighter Ireland or the world has ever produced, go Katie
Amazing achievement Katie!
Why couldn’t I watch this on a service I’m forced to pay for?
@Graham O’Brien: The promotion she is with is exclusively showing their fights on the Dazn platform.
@Graham O’Brien: because she is signed to dazn,I don’t understand why people go on about this,their is no boxer in the world signed to a national broadcaster and no national broadcaster could afford to pay her what they pay her
@Warren Mcdermott: It happens every time she fights, which makes me wonder if the people who comment cared so much about seeing her they surely would have looked it up!
Sorry, but a joke of an opponent. KT was 20/1 on to win this fight for a reason. All about a bumper money spinner at Croke Park.
@Tipper Irie: You’re a person that sounds like “tanker”.
@Alan Wright: Yep, a complete and utter tanker
@Alan Wright: objectively he is correct and has a very valid point. It doesn’t take away that she won her fight. That you’ve reverted immediately to schoolyard name calling is very telling, and something I’ve noticed happening more often from our supposed ‘adults.’ You can barely have a debate, question anything, or make a political statement any more than it’s quickly turned to some mud-slinging, soundbite ridden, urinal cake of retort. The dumbing down of society plane and simple
@Declan Edward: *Plain, obviously
@Declan Edward: Ah, Declan! This is The Journal. Around here name-calling is seen as educated debate.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: not just on the journal unfortunately.
@Alan Wright: Why don’t you try and argue the point instead of resorting to childish name calling?
@Alan Wright: if you are unable to see what is happening here that says more about you than me. This is a financial investment by possibly the most corrupt boxing promoter in the world right now in Eddie Hearn. This is about a big pay day selling out Croker, because he knows he can fill it on the back of PR and the nations love of KT. Would you accept the Ireland rugby team playing Peru at rugby and then being asked to pay in excess of €150 a ticket to play another (probably) easy opponent at the Aviva?
Boxing under Hearn has been about entertainment not the noble art. He hypes fighters up, gets them some very dubious decisions, including KT and then gets the adoring public to pay a fortune to watch them fight live. I am willing to guarantee he will earn more from the fight than KT.
Ireland greatest boxer ever
Fantastic
Well done Katie, and i believe something or some gesture should be afforded to katie, i dont think she gets enough recognition for her outstanding contributions to irish sports.
Bring Katie home . Katie in croke park will put women’s boxing on another level but also bring back shows in Ireland after the degenerates put a stop to it and at the same time be one of boxing’s biggest shows . Wait til the world sees at home how we support her . Be an unrivalled show .( Tyson fury v usky on the undercard
Naas Maurice
Well done Katie, and i believe something or gesture should be afforded to katie, i dont think she gets enough recognition for her outstanding contributions to irish sports.
@Steven Geoghegan: Boxing isn’t a sport.
Well Done to Katie Taylor, “The Celtic Warrior Queen.
Good.she makin a few bob in a cut throat buisness.