Mickey Harte is the new manager of the Louth senior footballers. Harte had managed Tyrone to three All-Ireland titles during an 18-year tenure which ended with an Ulster quarter-final defeat to Donegal earlier this month. Harte now takes over from Wayne Kierans as Louth manager, on a three-year term. A Louth GAA statement on Monday evening read: “We would like to give Mickey and Gavin a very warm welcome to Louth and we look forward to working closely with them over the next three years. Harte told Declan Bogue in an interview published in the Irish Examiner: “I didn’t get to fulfil my last year properly.

Source: The Irish Times November 23, 2020 20:43 UTC