QUILTY’s Evan Talty has coached St Brigid’s of Roscommon to win the Connacht senior football championship.
St Brigid’s defeated Galway side Moycullen 1-16 1-14 to win the Connacht SFC title for the sixth time at King and Moffatt Dr Hyde Park on Sunday.
A goal from Ruaidhrí Fallon three minutes from time plus a seven point return from centre forward Conor Hand helped them emerge victorious against a Moycullen side coached by Kieran Murphy who is Head Coach of Paul Madden’s Clare senior footballers.
Talty is in his first season as coach to St Brigid’s. He will return for a second season as skill acquisition coach with the Jimmy Lee managed Limerick senior footballers.
County and provincial titles with St Brigid’s is not Evan’s only time tasting success with Roscommon sides. He coached the Roscommon U20s to win the Connacht championship in 2024. He has previously managed Clare’s intermediate ladies footballers and coached the senior ladies football teams of Dublin and Galway.
He has nine Clare SFC medals and two Munster club titles from his playing career with Kilmurry Ibrickane and is the founder of iGaelicCoach.
Manager of the St Brigid’s side was Anthony Cunningham, the latest win adding to an impressive CV which includes managing the Galway senior hurlers and Roscommon senior footballers to Leinster and Connacht titles in 2012 and 2019. He previously led St Brigid’s to win the Connacht SFC in 2006 beating Corofin while he repeated the feat with Westmeath side Garrycastle winning the Leinster equivalent in 2011.
