Former Mayo and Kerry coach Donie Buckley will return to inter-county football as part of Monaghan's backroom team next season.
The highly-regarded coach played an integral role with his native Kerry as they found only Dublin too good in the 2019 All-Ireland SFC, but his services were dispensed with by manager Peter Keane earlier this year.
Buckley's earlier six-year stint with Mayo culminated in the county reaching three All-Ireland finals, where just as in 2020, Dublin proved their bete noire.
Monaghan manager Seamus McEnaney will lead his side into battle against three provincial foes in their Division 1 group in 2021, with Armagh, Donegal and Tyrone providing the opposition.
McEnaney's coaching set-up has been shorn of the services of Peter Donnelly and Conor Laverty, who have left to take up posts with Tyrone and Down, and Buckley will have a hands-on role in reinvigorating a Farney side which suffered an agonising extra-time loss to Cavan in the preliminary round of the Ulster Championship in October.
