Sligo announce New Senior Football Team Manager
Sligo County Board announced
their new Senior football team Manager at the October County Board meeting
tonight.
The selection committee appointed
by the County Board relayed their findings to the County Executive committee
and the candidate was later approved at the County Board meeting.
The new Manager is Cathal Corey
from Kildress in Co.Tyrone. Cathal’s home Club is Kildress Wolfe Tones.
While Cathal has never managed at
Inter County level previously,he has a very strong track record in both
Tyrone,Derry and Donegal.
In his early days as a Coach he
managed both Slaughtneil and Banagher in Derry.
He contested the Donegal Senior
team Manager job following Jim McGuinness’s retirement from the role and again
recently when Declan Bonner was appointed to the role.
Cathal worked with McGuinness
when he Managed Killyclogher in Co.Tyrone and again when he was involved with
Naomh Conaill in Donegal.
In fact Corey won the Donegal
title with Naomh Conaill in 2010 and brought them to the Ulster Championship
final that year only to be beaten by Crossmaglen.
Corey will be finalising his
backroom team over the coming week as he prepares for both the FBD and National
League campaigns and then faces a significant opening National League fixture
against Armagh in the Athletic Grounds at the end of January.