Na Fianna manager Niall Ó Ceallacháin, who was appointed Dublin’s new senior hurling manager last Tuesday. Photo: Stephen Marken/Sportsfile
The news of Anthony Daly’s appointment as Dublin hurling manager in November 2008 spread like wildfire within the local hurling community. His typically exuberant arrival began a pattern of managerial appointments from outside the county, only interrupted by Pat Gilroy, who managed for one season in 2018.
That Gilroy was considered a leftfield appointment is ironic, being a native though more football-oriented. After Daly exited in 2014, Ger Cunningham had a spell and then Mattie Kenny succeeded Gilroy, in turn replaced by Micheál Donoghue.
