McDermott’s fresh perspective

WHEN Kilmurry-Ibrickane chairman Gerald Talty began preparing the club’s blueprint for the 2008 season, he felt there was a need to head in a new direction.

The practice had always been to hand the senior football bainisteoir bib to someone within the club’s enclaves of Quilty and Mullagh. But without a Clare title since 2004 and with a production line of underage talent coming through, Talty felt the time had come to source their manager from the outside.

So it came to pass that Michéal McDermott was handed the Kilmurry-Ibrickane managerial controls and the Cavan native relished the chance.