“Last year, I would have felt that Cavan were a step above the other counties in the Tailteann Cup. Wicklow, McConville’s first inter-county management post, fit snugly into this bracket of the disaffected.īar a brief sojourn in Division 3 in 2021, the bottom rung of the league has, more or less, been their winter/spring home since the competition was divided into four graded tiers.Īs an All-Ireland winner 20 years ago with Armagh, someone who has been to the pinnacle of the club game, as both player and manager, with Crossmaglen, Wicklow might seem an unlikely outpost for McConville.īut the advent of the Tailteann Cup and the generally accepted success of its first staging changed all that. And we have no opportunity to win anything.” “When the league is over, we might get another game. “Every single one, bar none, said, ‘Our season is the league’,” he recalls now. A couple of years ago, Oisín McConville did a series of articles for the Sunday Life newspaper, interviewing football managers from counties in Division 3 and 4 of the league.
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