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Monaghan has beefed up his backroom team with the addition of Donie Buckley as head coach for 2021.
Uckley’s bond with the Monaghan footballers comes just days after Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney confirmed that Kieran Donaghy, another Kerryman, would be part of his coaching team next year.
Buckley was controversially removed from Kerry’s backroom team by manager Peter Keane earlier this year, a decision that is understood to have upset some of the players.
It had been part of the administration ticket in 2019 when Kerry led Dublin to an all-Ireland final replay.
His presence on the management team was understood to have been a condition for the acceptance of other candidates from the beginning, and Kerry’s board was keen that his home county could take advantage of his experience.
Monaghan’s manager, Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney, has been looking to add to his backroom team since Peter Donnelly left as strength and conditioning coach to return to Tyrone and Conor Laverty accepted an offer to manage the Sub-team. 20 Down. Jonny Davis, who had been at Tyrone, will be a strength and conditioning coach.
The addition of Buckley should give Monaghan a big boost as he tries to get the pieces back after a disappointing overtime loss to Cavan in the Ulster preliminary round in October. Buckley is a highly sought-after coach who spent six years under three different coaches in May, a period in which he lost three Irish finals to Dublin by one point.
Monaghan will have opponents from Ulster, Donegal, Armagh and Tyrone, in their four-county Division 1 pool in 2021.
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