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Best 5 GAA County Managers In Your Time

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Tomsmith here

I ask you to name the best 5 County Gaa managers in your time of watching Gaa matchs .
Present day managers can be included even if the dont mange ones own County
My six are as follows
No1 John Kiely Limerick
No2 Michael Harte Tyrone
No 3 John Maughan Mayo
No4 Martin Mc Hugh Cavan Manager
No 5 Jack o Connor Kerry manager

Kevin Heffernan , Malachy o Rourke, James Mc Guinness did not make my selection cut
Put your expert opinion down

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4145 - 20/02/2026 09:29:42    2657404

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Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here

I ask you to name the best 5 County Gaa managers in your time of watching Gaa matchs .
Present day managers can be included even if the dont mange ones own County
My six are as follows
No1 John Kiely Limerick
No2 Michael Harte Tyrone
No 3 John Maughan Mayo
No4 Martin Mc Hugh Cavan Manager
No 5 Jack o Connor Kerry manager

Kevin Heffernan , Malachy o Rourke, James Mc Guinness did not make my selection cut
Put your expert opinion down"
Mick O'Dwyer
Mickey Harte
Brian Cody
John Kiely
Liam Griffin

In no particular order.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18434 - 20/02/2026 09:59:54    2657409

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Martin McDermott -Roscommon

moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1267 - 20/02/2026 10:04:00    2657413

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Mick O'Dwyer
Brian Cody
Jim Gavin
Sean Boylan
Cyril Farrell

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8439 - 20/02/2026 10:48:01    2657426

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