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‘Dee’ is new Killea manager
05.02.08
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen Independent
NEW Killea boss Dermot Dunne doesn’t believe there
is a conflict of interests involved after he agreed
at the weekend to manage the Ulster Senior League
team while staying on as coach of Inishowen League
Premier Division title-chasers Quigley’s Point
Swifts.
The former Bonagee United manager was approached by
Killea Chairman Richie Kelly last Wednesday, and
after discussing the move with QPS chairman Barry
Harkin on Friday, Dunne called Killea to accept the
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Speaking to the
Inishowen Independent on Monday, Dunne insisted his
dual club role was workable. He also thought that
players should be allowed to play for Intermediate
and Junior teams in the same season.
“At the end of the day they [the Inishowen and the
Ulster Senior] are two separate leagues. The Ulster
Senior League games will be played on Friday nights
and Saturdays. Players want to play |
football and what’s to
stop them lining out in the Ulster Senior League on
a Saturday and for their Junior club on a Sunday? I
don’t see any conflict of interest, except perhaps
if one of the player’s teams was involved in a
competition that involved an overnight stay,” said
Dee.
Dunne will get the chance to run the rule over the
Killea squad for the first time on Thursday night at
the teams first training session ahead of the summer
USL season which gets underway next month and the
former Bonagee United manager says he wants to ‘keep
as many locals as possible playing in the team’
before he decides what additions are needed to
strengthen the squad.
He declined to say whether or not he would seek to
persuade any of his QPS players to sign for Killea,
adding only that he ‘knew what was out there’ in
terms of players that could enhance Killea’s squad.
There were, he added, a number of upsides to playing
summer football.
“The fact that game are played on a Friday and
Saturday was an attractive proposition as younger
players could socialise on a Saturday night and
players with wives and children would have Sunday’s
free to spend with their families.”
Dunne said that, while it would be difficult for
Killea to compete with teams such as Letterkenny
Rovers and Fanad United that ‘rewarded’ their
players, he was aiming for a strong showing in the
league and for Killea to progress to the latter
stages of the FAI Intermediate Cup.
Meanwhile, on the same night Dunne takes his first
training session, the committee of the Inishowen
League will meet to decide what position to adopt
regarding the signing of players from their clubs to
play for teams in the newly-restructured Ulster
Senior League. It’s thought that several clubs are
worried about losing key players to the Ulster
Senior League. |
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