O’Donnell set for fresh managerial gig this season
Fergal O'Donnell is set to take charge of the Mountbellew-Moylough senior footballers in Galway. Picture: INPHO/Bryan Keane
Former Roscommon senior football captain and manager, Fergal O’Donnell, is set to manage one of the leading contenders for this season’s Galway Senior Football Championship.
It is understood, according to reports in Galway, that O’Donnell is set to take over the Mountbellew-Moylough senior footballers.
He takes up the baton from Val Daly who, ironically, also managed the Roscommon senior footballers in the mid-nineties.
Mountbellew-Moylough, who have five Galway senior football titles, last won the Frank Fox Cup in 2021 before losing out to Roscommon champions, Pádraig Pearses, in a controversial provincial championship encounter at Dr. Hyde Park.
O’Donnell, who famously led Roscommon to All-Ireland minor glory in 2006 and a Connacht senior football championship success in 2010, 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.
With a huge managerial turnover across the province ahead of the new season, O’Donnell was very much a name in demand, but it appears that he has decided to plump for Mountbellew-Moylough to help the club’s bid to become Galway kingpins once more.
