Veteran McEniff relishing return to the sidelines with Louth

BRIAN McENIFF enjoyed a long a fruitful managerial career with Donegal, Sligo, Ulster and Ireland before stepping back into a well-earned retirement but the 1992 All-Ireland winning coach has returned to the sidelines in recent weeks with Louth.

McEniff has been helping Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick in an advisory capacity and will have no doubt been thrilled by the Wee county’s shock defeat of Kildare in Saturday’s Leinster clash.

“I have been giving them a hand for the last month ever since they beat Longford in the first round,’’ he said. “I go up once a week. It is not that much out of the way as I fit it in either on my way to Dublin or on the way home from Dublin,” he told the Democrat/Peoples Press.