Martin O’Neill said it was a “great privilege” to be confirmed as Celtic’s permanent manager for a second time and vowed that the club will not rest on the success of last season.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old’s two interim spells in charge resulted in an unlikely Premiership and Scottish Cup double at the end of a season of unrest at Parkhead.<\/p>\n
He has agreed a one-year contract with the option for a further year after talks with Celtic’s major shareholder Dermot Desmond.<\/p>\n
And despite the claiming his ninth trophy as Celtic manager, O’Neill suggested he expects a busy summer of action to improve a squad that trailed Heart of Midlothian for most of the season.<\/p>\n
O’Neill’s sentiment was backed up by interim chairman Brian Wilson and principal shareholder Dermot Desmond.<\/p>\n
“It is a great privilege for me to continue as Celtic manager,” O’Neill told the club’s website.<\/p>\n
“Last season will live long in all our memories and to be part of that success has in a big way whetted the appetite to work again for more days like those and bring our supporters those moments.<\/p>\n
“I would particularly like to thank the board for giving me this opportunity.<\/p>\n
“Celtic can never rest on past success so we are aiming to drive forward together and deliver again for the club and our fans.<\/p>\n
“I thank our fans for their ongoing support, it means everything. I look forward to being back at Celtic Park, when we will come together and strive to bring our fans the success which that support deserves.”<\/p>\n
Wilson said the appointment was “the start of a busy summer” where the club “will ensure we are in the best possible position to compete”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin O’Neill said it was a “great privilege” to be confirmed as Celtic’s permanent manager for a second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-494230","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\/494230","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=494230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}