Former Armagh and Crossmaglen Rangers star Oisin McConville has been linked with the vacant Wicklow Senior soccer supervisor place.
owever, at a county board assembly on Thursday night in Ballinakill, Wicklow GAA Chairman Martin Fitzgerald stated that the place was nonetheless to be crammed and that there have been at the very least three candidates nonetheless within the working for the position.
Fitzgerald acknowledged that there have been ‘rumours’ doing the rounds however that the choice on who would get the job was nonetheless to be made.
Ought to it grow to be McConville who has secured the position, the two-time All-Star winner will take the reins following a disrupted season in 2022 that seen Colin Kelly resign in March with Alan Costello and Gary Duffy stepping in for the rest of the season the place the Backyard County suffered relegation again to Division 4.
The All-Eire profitable sharpshooter is at present managing Iniskeen Grattans in Monaghan.
McConville, would have secured the place of Backyard County boss following an exhaustive search that’s believed to have concerned names reminiscent of Jim Gavin, Declan Darcy, Casey O’Brien, Leighton Glynn, Paul Garrigan, Jonathan Daniels and Kevin O’Brien amongst others, with some continuing via the interview course of and others declining approaches from the choice committee.
Charged with appointing the brand new supervisor are a staff of 9 folks. They’re former Wicklow under-21 and St Patrick’s supervisor Gail Dunne, Rathnew’s Peter Dignam, Wicklow GAA’s Alan Smullen, Martin Coleman, Chris O’Connor and Martin Fitzgerald, Bray’s Liam McGraynor and Mark Kenny and Andy Maher from the present crop of gamers.
Based on Martin Fitzgerald on the assembly on Thursday evening, there was additionally no information in relation to the vacant place of Wicklow Senior hurling supervisor and that there have been two robust candidates nonetheless within the working for that position vacated by Eamonn Scallan.
