Neylon & Fahy returned as county U20 managers

CLARE’s outgoing under 20 football and hurling managers have been re-appointed for the coming season.

The September meeting of Clare GAA at Caherlohan on Monday night, was told that
St Joseph’s Miltown clubman Michael Neylon and his management team had agreed to continue for another term.

It was a similar position in relation to under 20 hurling manager Terence Fahy who was also unanimously re-appointed with the meeting told that there is one more addition to be appointed to his team.

Outgoing coach Aidan Harte has been appointed as a member of Micheal O’Donoghue’s Galway senior management team.

Chairman Kieran Keating told the meeting that the appointment of minor managers for next season will be confirmed at the next meeting as the appointments had first to be confirmed at a meeting of the board’s management committee.

It will be Neylon’s fifth year in charge of the U20 footballers. A former senior selector to both Mick O’Dwyer and Colm Collins, he was in charge when St Joseph’s Miltown won the Clare SFC in 2015 and 2018.

Whitegate’s Fahy was appointed the county U20 hurling manager in December 2021 and will be in charge for his fourth campaign. He was over the St Joseph’s Tulla side crowned Harty Cup champions in February 2022. His management team includes Inagh/Kilnamona boss Tomás Kelly.