Barry set for Royal coaching role return

Former Royals’ senior football team manager Eamonn Barry is set to return as Meath County Board coaching officer in a bizarre turnabout.

Barry, who had a controversial one-year term at the helm in 2006 after succeeding Sean Boylan, was barred from running for the coaching post at last year’s annual convention because he was not registered as a member of the association.

In an unprecedented move, chairman Barney Allen checked the membership of all people nominated for positions at last year’s convention and the Walterstown clubman was one of two nominees blocked.