Micko set to march on for 57th season

MICK O’DWYER is to be ratified tonight as the Wicklow senior boss for a fifth successive season – his 57th consecutive season in inter-county football.

The Waterville native, involved as either a player or manager with a county team since featuring for the Kerry minors in 1953, is understood to have met with Garden County officials yesterday to finalise a return to the helm.

The Garden County’s loss to Cavan in the first round of this year’s All-Ireland qualifiers seemed to signal the end of the Kerryman’s tenure. With the 2010 showing not matching that of the previous year, when he guided Wicklow to the last 12 of the All-Ireland after wins over Fermanagh, Cavan and Down, there was speculation that O’Dwyer’s services were up for grabs.