Roscommon club moves for former All-Star as manager
Eamonn O'Hara is set to become the new manager of the Boyle senior football team. Picture: INPHO/Andrew Paton
A County Roscommon club will have a former All-Star in charge of its senior football team next season.
The understands that former Sligo footballer Eamonn O’Hara is set to take over the reins in Boyle.
O’Hara has been living in North Roscommon for the past couple of years, guiding Leitrim outfit Mohill to the last two county titles.
He had previously managed his native Tourlestrane to five consecutive Sligo senior football titles between 2016 and 2020.
Boyle, under the management of Cian Smith, were defeated in the Roscommon county senior football finals of 2022 and 2023 by Strokestown and St. Brigid's respectively before being knocked out by Roscommon Gaels in the quarter-finals earlier this year.
O’Hara, who has also worked on games for RTÉ as a co-commentator/analyst in recent years, will be hoping to lead Boyle to the club’s first Roscommon senior football title since 1927.
He is one of Sligo’s most decorated footballers, winning an All-Star in 2002 alongside scoring a brilliant goal during his native county’s famous Connacht final triumph against Galway in 2007 at Dr. Hyde Park — the Yeats County’s first provincial crown since 1975.
