Sammon to be ratified new Galway boss this evening

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Written by John Fallon

Wednesday, 05 September 2007

Liam Sammon will take over as the new Galway football manager this Wednesday evening for a three-year term. Sammon is to be ratified at a meeting of Galway Football Board at the Clayton Hotel.

The 1966 All-Ireland winner will take over from Peter Ford, whose three-year reign ended with an All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Meath.

Sammon’s appointment means that the Tribesmen will have a Galway native in charge for the first time in almost ten years.

Galway Football Board chairman Pat Egan confirmed that Sammon was the choice of the five-man committee set up to interview the other candidates who were nominated.

Also in contention was Sammon’s Salthill/Knocknacarra club colleague Eoin O’Donnellan, Dublin selector and former Galway midfielder Brian Taly, Tom McManus from Milltown and Peter Warren who, like O’Donnellan, was a selector with Forde this season and who was also part of John O’Mahony’s management when they won the 1998 and 2001 All-Ireland titles.

“Liam will go before a meeting of the Football Board on Wednesday night to be ratified and he will name his own selectors,” said Egan.
Sammon, who retired recently as a teacher at St Mary’s College in the city, is a native of Galway city and won county titles with Fr Griffin’s before playing a key role in the development of Salthill GAA club.

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