Andy McEntee is a

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. He has been the manager of the Antrim county team since 2022. He managed his native

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between 2016 and 2022.

Career

McEntee managed Meath to the final of the 2012 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship. He led Ballyboden St Enda's of Dublin to the

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. He was named as Meath manager in August 2016. In

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, he led Meath back to Division 1 of the

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for the first time since 2006. He led Meath to Leinster finals in 2018 and 2019. He left after Meath exited the

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. Then McEntee was unexpectedly appointed as

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senior manager on a three-year term.

Personal life

His son

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plays for Meath. Andy McEntee is the younger brother of former Meath footballer,

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. Another brother,

, was a

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politician, who was a

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(TD) from 2005 until his death in 2012. His daughter Helen succeeded him. Helen McEntee became her country's

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in June 2020.

References

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