ROSCOMMON CHAMPIONS ST Brigid’s have confirmed that Frankie Dolan will remain in charge of the senior football team for 2018, with Mark O’Carroll and Shane Curran joining his backroom team.
Dolan, O’Carroll and Curran were all part of the St Brigid’s squad who defeated Ballymun Kickhams in the All-Ireland club final four years ago.
Dolan, a prolific forward with Roscommon during his playing days, is entering his third year in charge of the Kiltoom club. He has presided over Roscommon SFC title wins in both 2016 and 2017, while St Brigid’s fell to Corofin in Connacht in each of the past two seasons.
Last week former Roscommon goalkeeper Curran led the club’s U20s to the county title, while O’Carroll managed Westmeath intermediate outfit Tubberclair for the last two seasons.
A club statement read: “As most of you know both Mark and Shane have enjoyed very successful playing careers with St. Brigid’s and have gained valuable managerial experience from their times with Tubberclaire and Padraig Pearses respectively and also with various teams in St. Brigid’s over the years.
“We are delighted to have a three man management team from within our club and we hope you will all join with us in wishing them well for 2018.”
St. Brigid’s dominated Roscommon football at all levels this year, winning senior, junior, U20, minor and U16 titles as part of a remarkable clean sweep. The club’s minor footballers also went on to lift the Connacht title.
The club thanked former All-Stars Enon Gavin (Roscommon) and Declan Meehan (Galway) who were part of Dolan’s set-up as they won a 16th county title this year.
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Well done. Great Cause
Could have come first if he didn’t stop to take the bloody selfie….Great man. Great cause. Lovely story.
Selfie mehole. Soon as the picture was taken, he hopped on a sleigh with 12 huskies pulling him along, and cracked open a bottle of powers
The only reason he didn’t win was because he spent the first 3 days going in the wrong direction.
Wow! There really are some fantastic human beings around! And he is one!!
What a lazy fecker.
SECOND?
Fair play to him, great cause and a great performance to match
I know, whats with the article he didn’t even win like?
Hadn’t have slept those 6 hours he might have won lazy fecker. Congratulations though that’s some achievement.
And the race is from where to where?
Exactly! Any chance of including what’s actually involved in the race?
As his medal says “finisher” coz most people can’t finish the toughest course in the world (probably) And that little boy will smile ear to ear after he recovers Fair fox ta ya man fair fox ta ya.
Respect …. Wow ….. Well done
Cmon the tribesmen
North to Alaska/Johhny Horton
Sam crossed the majestic mountains (mush)
To the valleys far below (mush)
He talked to his team of huskies (mush)
As he mushed on through the snow (mush)
With the northern lights a-runnin’ wild (mush)
In the land of the midnight sun (mush)
Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man (mush)
In the year of nineteen-one (mush)
………And so is Gavan Hannigan a Mighty Man too.Well done Gavan!
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
(Robert Service poem).
@Pat Gorman…….
The Spell of the Yukon
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it — Came out with a fortune last fall, —
Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it, And somehow the gold isn’t all.
No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?) It’s the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it; Some say it’s a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it For no land on earth — and I’m one.
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-A Great Week-end to You Pat Gorman.
Who came third?
Great cause but to come second should be ashamed of himself
Phenomenal performance!! Tough race to finish let alone finish 2nd, well done
Superb Gavin , I suppose they’ll expect you to win the all Ireland for Galway now.
Fair dues man :)
If your not first your last!! Great achievement.while fitness is important its the will and desire to keep going that is most impressive,well done.
Well done. Inspirational.
Amazing stuff.. but yes we need more info please !
Some achievement. . Well done. .
Where in galway is he from?
He came second out of 2
people were still finishing 3 days after he finished!, more detail about this gruelling event is needed in the article.
The Yukon!
The land of the Sourdough.
One of the toughest places on earth.
Recommended Good Read:
Micí Mac Gabhann’s “Rotha Mór an tSaoil”.
That procedure not available here in Nirvana, no?