Former Roscommon manager set to take over adopted club
Fergal O'Donnell is set to become the new Boyle senior football manager. Picture: INPHO/Colm O'Neill
Former Roscommon senior football manager, Fergal O’Donnell, is set to take over the Boyle senior footballers next season.
The understands that O’Donnell has agreed to become the manager of his adopted club, replacing Eamonn O’Hara who spent one season with the North Roscommon outfit before becoming joint manager of the Sligo senior footballers.
O’Donnell, who famously led Roscommon to All-Ireland minor glory in 2006 and a Connacht senior football championship success in 2010, spent 2025 at the helm at Mountbellew/Moylough in Galway.
He helped Tourlestrane complete seven titles in a row in Sligo in 2022 before losing out to Moycullen in that year’s Connacht club final.
Before that, he had managed the Western Gaels senior footballers in the Roscommon SFC.
Boyle, who last won the senior championship in 1927, have been knocking on the door in recent years, losing both the 2022 and 2023 finals by a point, under current Roscommon U-20 manager Cian Smith’s tenure.
For the last two seasons, they have been knocked out at the quarter-final stages, but will be hoping that O’Donnell, who has been living in Boyle for the last number of years, will be the man who can finally lead the club to its Holy Grail.
Meanwhile, Declan O’Flaherty will replace Pat Fallon as the new Clann na nGael senior football manager. It is understood that former championship-winning manager Feargal Shine and former captain Jonathan Dunning will be part of O’Flaherty’s management team.
