Gaelic football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...
manager
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1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 108th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
It was ...
Sigerson Cup
The Sigerson Cup is the trophy for the premier Gaelic football championship among Higher Education institutions (Universities, Colleges and Institutes of Technology) in Ireland. It traditionally begins in mid January and ends in late February. T ...
as manager of the
St Mary's University College, Belfast
St Mary's University College is a university college in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
History
The origins of the College can be traced back to 1900 when the Dominican Sisters opened St Mary’s Training College on the present Falls Road campus with ...
team in 2017. Under the management of Kevin Walsh, he coached the Galway county team in 2018 when that county reached the "Super 8s". He left Galway when a managerial vacancy arose after Éamonn Burns left his role as Down senior manager.
While he was the manager of Down, a perceived breach of
COVID-19
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regulations led to a ban. Down lost all their home 2022 National Football League games as punishment. Tally's ban was later reduced. Tally knew other counties were at it too so he went with it himself. Although Down approved a one-year extension, Tally did not think Down's clubs' vote on the issue was large enough to give him the confidence to stay as manager.Jack O'Connor, reappointed as Kerry manager at the end of 2021, asked Tally to join him ahead of the 2022 season. Tally was head coach of the team that won the
2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 135th final of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in Gaelic football, the culmination of the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The match was played at Croke Pa ...
. Ahead of that game (when it turned out he shared a club with referee Sean Hurson), Galway manager
Pádraic Joyce
Pádraic Joyce (born 1 April 1977) is a Gaelic football Manager (Gaelic games), manager and former player who played as a forward. He has been manager of the senior Galway county football team, Galway county team since 2019.
Joyce won the All ...
was asked to comment on this, as was Kerry manager Jack O'Connor.
He was appointed as manager for
Derry county football team
The Derry county football team represents Derry GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association, in the Gaelic sport of football. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football ...