Mullingar Shamrocks Stay Local In Appointing New Senior Football Manager

Tuesday, 25 January 2022 16:14

Enda Monaghan will oversee things this season.

Enda Monaghan has been named as the new Mullingar Shamrocks senior football manager.

The club announced the decision on Facebook as well as his backroom team of John Doran and John Ganly. Aaron Quinn comes on board to look after strength and conditioning, while Daragh Ryan has been installed as goalkeeping coach.

The club issed the following statement on the matter:

Enda Monaghan was ratified as the manager of Mullingar Shamrocks senior football team. Enda is joined on his management team by John Doran and John Ganly as selectors and Aaron Quinn in charge of strength and conditioning. Daragh Ryan joins the team as goalkeeping coach. Ritchie Daly continues in his role as team secretary and the key man in the whole logistics operation, Ross Brady also continues in his role.

Only those who are closely involved with the team would be aware of the excellent work of Ross, one of the great unsung heroes of the club.

Enda was skills coach in 2018 on Ned Moore’s championship winning management team and is a teacher at St. Patricks, Navan where he has been involved in the management of the school’s senior team and led them to a Leinster title in 2013 but were eventually defeated by St Patrick’s, Maghera In the All-Ireland final.

Enda is a former Mullingar Shamrocks player and is one of a rare group of players in the club with a complete collection of Westmeath under-age medals and was full-back on the Shamrocks minor team that won the county title in 2003 and 2004, captaining the team on the latter occasion as well as captaining the Under-14 title winning team in 1999.

John Doran was a member of the Mullingar Shamrocks panel in the Golden Age of Mullingar Shamrocks football in the 1980s and 1990s. John Ganly was a key figure on the Mullingar Shamrocks senior title winning team of 2012.

We wish the team the best of luck for 2022 and thank Jack, Joe, Eric and Anthony for their work in 2021, work that secured Shamrocks place in the senior football championship for the next two years.