Eamon McEneaney is an Irish former

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and player for the

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club and at senior level for the Monaghan county team. McEneaney won the

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in 1985 while playing for Monaghan. He

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ed his club to two Ulster Senior Club Football Championship titles in 1986 and 1991. In retirement, McEneaney managed the Louth county team between 2006 and 2009, winning the 2009 O'Byrne Cup. He then managed the senior Monaghan county team from 2010 until 2012.

Playing career

As a player with Monaghan, McEneaney won three

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titles: in 1979, 1985 and 1988. He also won an U-21 title as a player in 1981 and as manager of Monaghan U-21's in 1999. He

ed his club

to two Ulster Senior Club Football Championship titles in 1986 and 1991.

Coaching career

McEneaney managed Monaghan in a joint capacity with former GAA president

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in 1997 and then on his own in 1998 and 1999, winning an All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship title in 1998. He subsequently had a spell in charge of

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from 2006 to 2009, guiding them to a

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title, the 2009 O'Byrne Cup and a first Leinster Junior Football Championship title since 1966. McEneaney succceeeded Séamus McEnaney as manager of the Monaghan senior football team in October 2010, after McEnaney declined to allow his name go forward for the role he had held for the previous six years. The Monaghan County Board decided in August 2010 that McEnaney would be forced to go through the nomination process after a poor finish to the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC). In July 2012, McEneaney left his role as Monaghan manager after an All-Ireland SFC qualifier defeat to

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. He said:

Playing honours

;Inter-county *

(3): 1979, 1985, 1988 *

(1): 1985 *

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(3): 1979, 1980, 1983 * Ulster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 1981 ( c) ;Club * Monaghan Senior Football Championship (8): 1976, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996 * Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (2): 1986, 1991 * Monaghan Senior Football League Division 1 (3): 1994, 1995, 1996

Coaching honours

;Manager of Louth * All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship (1): 1998 * Tommy Murphy Cup (1): 2006 * National Football League Division 2 (1): 2006 *

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(1): 2009 * Leinster Junior Football Championship: (1) 2009 ;Geraldines GFC * Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship (1): 2013 U21 Ulster championship (1): 1999

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McEneaney, Eamonn Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Castleblayney Faughs Gaelic footballers Gaelic football managers Louth county football team non-playing personnel Monaghan county football team non-playing personnel Monaghan inter-county Gaelic footballers Ulster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers