Former Republic of Ireland international Eunan O’Kane has been appointed manager of Derry GAA club side Banagher.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Kane is living at home after the end his club career in England which yielded spells with Leeds United, Bournemouth and Luton Town.<\/p>\n
Banagher confirmed the appointment to RT\u00c9 Sport this afternoon, revealing he has been involved with the club in recent times before taking on the role.<\/p>\n
He also helped out the Moneyglass women’s side.<\/p>\n
O’Kane featured during the Giovanni Trapattoni era and was on standby for Euro 2016, but missed out on selection for the final 23-man squad for the tournament.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old retired in 2021 after a series of injury problems.<\/p>\n
Banagher have never won the senior Derry football title, with the dual club winning the hurling competition on three occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Republic of Ireland international Eunan O’Kane has been appointed manager of Derry GAA club side Banagher. O\u2019Kane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-205285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}