Kevin McStay has been appointed as the brand new Mayo soccer supervisor in succession to James Horan.
ayo county board has this night permitted the advice of a five-man interview committee for the Ballina man to take over for the subsequent 4 years.
McStay could have former supervisor Stephen Rochford and coach Donie Buckley as a part of his backroom staff, along with Liam MacHale, his coach at St Brigid’s after they gained the All-Eire membership title in 2013 and the Connacht title with Roscommon in 2017. Damien Mulligan, who introduced Belmullet to final 12 months’s county last, can be on board.
McStay’s candidacy was most well-liked to that of Ray Dempsey, the present Knockmore supervisor who has introduced the membership to the final two county titles.
Dempsey had additionally assembled a robust backroom staff with outgoing coach James Burke, former Armagh Allstar ahead Oisin McConville, a number of Mayo Allstar defender Keith Higgins, two-time All-Eire successful Kerry goalkeeper Declan O’Keeffe and 2013 All-Eire successful minor supervisor Enda Gilvarry concerned.
Declan Shaw was additionally interviewed over the weekend and had commitments from Paddy Christie, the previous Dublin participant and outgoing coach to Tipperary, former Mayo footballer Richie Feeney, Cormac Rowland and former Sligo participant, Dessie Sloyan. Interviews came about all through Saturday.
McStay had beforehand been concerned with the Mayo staff as coach in 1995 and pitched for the job in 2014, after Horan’s earlier departure, when Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly bought the place as a substitute.
By that stage he was an All-Eire successful membership supervisor with St Brigid’s and has since had three years of inter-county expertise with Roscommon.
McStay has had a excessive profile as an astute analyst with RTE and ‘Irish Occasions’ in more moderen years.
He had indicated in 2018, when he left Roscommon, that he would not search an inter-county job once more however the lure of dwelling has been too sturdy.
