The Carlow board appointed former Meath star Liam Hayes as the county’s new senior football manager last night.
Hayes, a two-time All-Ireland winner with the Royals, steered Lucan Sarsfields to intermediate league and championship successes in Dublin in 1995, however, he has never managed at inter-county level before.
The former Skryne midfielder succeeds Luke Dempsey, who was appointed as Longford’s boss in September.
Carlow produced a minor shock when they beat Longford in the first round of last season’s Leinster Championship. But they could not build on that win, suffering subsequent defeats to Laois and in the qualifiers to Down.
