Michéal Donoghue has been appointed Dublin hurling supervisor.
he former Galway boss has been given a three-year time period, confirmed in a shock announcement by the Dublin county board this morning.
Donoghue guided Galway to All-Eire glory in 2017, the county’s first success since 1988, and he may have two of his selectors from that administration staff with him in Dublin.
Noel Larkin and Francis Forde have been confirmed as being a part of Donoghue’s ticket, together with former Westmeath boss and Dublin native, Shane O’Brien.
Donoghue spent 4 years as Galway supervisor, bringing them to back-to-back All-Eire finals in 2017 and ’18, the latter ending in slender defeat to Limerick.
His remaining recreation over the county got here in Parnell Park in 2019, when a Leinster SHC spherical robin loss to Dublin ended their season shy of the All-Eire collection.
Donoghue has maintained a profile as a pundit with RTÉ however final yr, was tipped to return to the Galway job previous to Henry Shefflin’s appointment.
Dublin have been and not using a supervisor since one other Galway native, Mattie Kenny, stood down on July sixth after failure to qualify for the All-Eire collection.
Donoghue’s first job could also be holding the present panel intact, with quite a lot of gamers understood to be contemplating spending not less than a part of subsequent yr travelling.
As well as, final yr’s captain, Eoghan O’Donnell spent the second half of the season with Dessie Farrell’s soccer panel and there have been no indications but as to his plans for 2023.
