Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher step down as managers of Tyrone

STEPPING DOWN: Brian Dooher, left, and Feargal Logan have stepped down from their role as joint-managers of Tyrone. Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher have stepped down as managers of the Tyrone senior intercounty football team after four years in charge.

Logan and Dooher still had two years to run on their second three-year term but made the decision to step down after a disappointing 2024 championship. The pair won an All-Ireland title at the first attempt in 2021.

As a player, Dooher won three All-Ireland titles, two as captain. Logan started in the team that reached the 1995 All-Ireland final. Their All-Ireland title as managers came after the semi-final against Kerry was postponed due to a Covid-19 outbreak.

Tyrone’s County Secretary Michael Kerr thanked the pair for their contribution.

“Brian’s and Feargal’s contributions to Tyrone GAA are just monumental,” he said.

“Too often we focus on ‘What’ people achieve. But in the broader picture the ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ are probably more important. Brian and Feargal have delivered the supreme prizes for Tyrone.

“But they’ve always done that in the right way. And never more so than in the COVID throes, when they unapologetically prioritised the well-being of our players and then dealt so well with the serious impacts of the virus on our panel.”

Tyrone County GAA Chair Martin Sludden added: "They’ve simply made wonderful history for us, time and again, in place after place, and in so many ways.

"Always with style, class, dignity and honour. And, very remarkably in the world we’re now in, always as total volunteers to the Tyrone GAA cause."

This year, Tyrone were knocked out of the Ulster championship by eventual provincial champions Donegal at the semi-final stage and failed to make the All-Ireland quarter-finals. Roscommon triumphed 0-14 to 0-12 in the preliminary quarter-final.

In recent years there has been a significant change in the makeup of the squad, with a host of players walking away while young prospects came in.

Tyrone will now move to appoint a new manager with details to be released shortly. Malachy O'Rourke and U20 All-Ireland winning manager Paul Delvin are possible candidates for the role.