{"id":471938,"date":"2026-05-28T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471938\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:22:08","slug":"athlone-confirm-appointment-of-32-year-old-agg-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471938\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlone confirm appointment of 32-year-old Agg as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily Agg has been confirmed as the new manager of Athlone Town after signing a two-and-a-half year contract with the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division side.<\/p>\n

Athlone have operating without a permanent head coach since John Sullivan’s shock departure in March after the opening game of the season.<\/p>\n

Republic of Ireland midfielder Agg had been linked to the vacancy since she was spotted at the recent 1-0 win over Treaty United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old is currently in the early stages of recovering from a ruptured Achilles, a devastating blow which had followed shortly after her return from an ACL injury.<\/p>\n

\"Lily
\nAgg on international duty last year<\/p>\n

The 2023 World Cup squad member was released by Birmingham City earlier this month and has now taken her first step into management.<\/p>\n

“I’m beyond excited to be joining Athlone,” she said. “From the very first conversations with Steven Gray (CEO) and Brian Shelly (Technical Director) I was so impressed with the club\u2019s ambitions and can\u2019t wait to join this incredible team.”<\/p>\n

The 22-cap international takes over a side that were knocked off the top of the table following a 2-1 defeat to Galway United on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Agg has been confirmed as the new manager of Athlone Town after signing a two-and-a-half year contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-471938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471938","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=471938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}