Eamonn Murray
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Eamonn Murray is a Gaelic footballer who is assistant manager of the Cavan county team.
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Originally from Cavan GAA club Gowna,[1][2][3] Murray spent several decades living in County Meath, and thought of Seán Boylan as someone he would "try to learn" from during this time.[2] 1987 and 1988 All-Ireland SFC winner Liam Harnan is a brother-in-law.[2] Murray is married to Harnan's sister.[4] Harnan's nephew, the 2023 Tailteann Cup winner Padraic, is another relative.[2]
Murray won the 2009 All-Ireland U16FC and 2016 All-Ireland MFC B titles, sides that featured many of the players from his future successes, before being appointed as manager of the senior team in 2017.[5] He then brought the team as far as the 2018 and 2019 All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies' Football finals, before winning the 2020 edition.[5]
He won the 2021 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, defeating a Dublin team seeking a fifth consecutive title in the final.[6][7]
He then won the 2022 All Ireland Senior Ladies' Football title.[8][9][10]
He resigned as Meath manager at the end of August 2022.[11] Murray said he had been thinking about doing so since that year's All-Ireland final had ended.[12][13] He previously stated his hopes that his work with Meath would help other teams, such as Kerry, to make a breakthrough in the sport.[14] He had led Meath to the top from the Intermediate class.[15] He was also in charge of the team when they won Division 2 and Division 1 league titles.[16]
Murray described the AFLW, the semi-professional Australian rules football league, as "dreadful stuff" with "no skill at all".[1] He said that the loss of his players to the AFLW was why he cried after the 2022 final.[17]
From August 2023, he began working as assistant manager of Cavan and mentor to newly appointed manager Raymond Galligan.[2][3][18][19] Galligan was the second-youngest inter-county manager at the time, and had just retired from playing inter-county football.[20]
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