Killybegs native Brendan McGuire appointed as manager of Derry side Faughanvale

Killybegs native Brendan McGuire has been ratified as the manager of Derry club Faughanvale.

McGuire, currently living in Derry city, worked in 2022 under Joe Gray, with Simon Green and Ryan King as selectors with the side who made the quarter-finals of the Derry IFC before losing out to Castledawson

He will take charge with Mark O'Hara and Barry Gillis, who won the 2000 National Football League with Derry as an outfield player and then repeated the trick in 2008 as a goalkeeper, on the management ticket confirmed on Sunday afternoon.

With his local club Killybegs, McGuire won county U-13, U-14 and the minor crown in 2005 alongside players like current Everton and Republic of Ireland captain Seamus Coleman, former Sligo Rovers and Finn Harps defender Jason Noctor and Donegal county minors Paul McGinley and Shane Boyle.

Killybegs were beaten in the 2005/06 St Paul's Tournament Ulster Minor final by Tyrone’s Errigal Ciaran and later that same year McGuire was an All-Ireland Freshers finalist for Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

McGuire was part of the Killybegs side who reached the 2013 Donegal SFC final and three years later, whilst living in Letterkenny, lined out for St Eunan’s, who won the Donegal Senior Reserve Championship. He was also part of the St Catherine’s side who won the Donegal League Premier Division in 2005/06 and again in 2014/15 and is a three-time Brian McCormick Sports Cup winner.

In 2021, the now 35-year-old managed Killybegs minors and coached the senior team with John Cunningham and Eugene Mulligan. Faughanvale were previously managed by another Killybegs native, Shay Murrin, who took the club to the 2015 JFC title and the IFC final two years later.