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Séamus McEnaney

Gaelic football manager

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About Séamus McEnaney

Séamus McEnaney was an association football coach.

Business career McEnaney is in charge of Westenra Arms Hotel in the town of Monaghan. As well as County Monaghan, other properties are in County Cavan, County Dublin, County Louth and County Meath. Where he led his side to a National Football League Division 2 title in 2005. He also led Monaghan to a first Ulster Senior Football Championship final in 19 years in 2007 and again in 2010 but lost out to Tyrone both times.

Meath McEnaney was appointed as Meath manager in November 2010. He resigned in 2012 after Dublin defeated Meath by three points in the 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship final, and Laois defeated Meath by three points again six days later in the fourth round of the All-Ireland qualifiers.

Wexford In October 2016, McEnaney was announced as Wexford senior manager on a three-year deal.

Yet he did not complete the three years on offer. He resigned as Wexford senior manager after one season in August 2017, blaming the distance he had to travel; the driving from his house in Carrickmacross to Ferns in Wexford was, he said, "a 500km round trip... I'd leave my house at 3.0pm to head to training and I wouldn't be back again until midnight. The driving was the single biggest reason because the county board and the players were top class. We had whatever we needed and the respect, commitment and attitude of the players couldn't be questioned." He immediately began his search for a nearer post; within days of announcing his departure from Wexford he submitted his name for the then vacant Donegal senior football manager role that ultimately went to Declan Bonner.

Return to Monaghan McEnaney led Monaghan to an Ulster Minor Football Championship in 2018.

In August 2019, McEnaney's return as Monaghan senior football team manager was confirmed. In September 2021, following his suspension for bringing the Association into disrepute, Monaghan announced McEnaney would be retained as manager for a third year. He left at the end of the 2022 season.

Suspension On 8 April 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Independent reported that Minister for Justice Helen McEntee had received photographic evidence and video footage of Monaghan footballers collectively training in late March and thus breaching the COVID-19 Level 5 restrictions then in force. Minister McEntee sent the details to both the Garda Síochána and Croke Park. The incident occurred at Corduff GAA club near Carrickmacross and members of the county's management team were implicated. The Department of Justice confirmed that it had received the information and passed it on to the Garda Síochána, the GAA and the Department of Health. Gardaí launched an enquiry into the matter. Hours later, Monaghan GAA announced it was suspending McEnaney for 12 weeks after the team manager admitted involvement in breaching the Level 5 restrictions and said it would comply with a GAA investigation into the incident. Minister Jack Chambers told RTÉ: "My officials from the Department of Sport have been in touch with the GAA to reemphasise that all breaches undermine the broader public health messaging". Former GAA president Seán Kelly said: "It's terrible to see it happening, officially organised, in a GAA club, by a county team... Saying you can't start training until two or three weeks after other counties would be a good place to start" as an additional punishment, he said. GAA president Larry McCarthy said the GAA's reputation had been damaged.

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