New start for Galway and Kenna

“OUR SEASON starts now,” declared Galway United’s chief executive Nick Leeson after the club yesterday unveiled former Irish international Jeff Kenna as their new manager.

The 37-year-old Dubliner, who was capped 27 times for his country and helped Blackburn Rovers win the Premiership in 1995, has been playing for non-League Kidderminster Harriers in England for the past two seasons, but he now takes up his first managerial post as successor to Tony Cousins who was sacked three weeks ago.

Kenna, who will take immediate charge for the game against Bray Wanderers at Terryland Park on Friday, has been given a three-year term, with Billy Clery, the caretaker boss since Cousins’ departure, installed as his assistant.