{"id":606843,"date":"2026-08-28T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606843\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T03:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:26:15","slug":"bannigan-steps-down-as-monaghan-boss-as-goalposts-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606843\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannigan steps down as Monaghan boss as ‘goalposts move’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Bannigan has stepped down as Monaghan manager after two seasons in charge of the Oriel County citing moving goalposts.<\/p>\n

As first reported by RT\u00c9 Sport, Bannigan informed the county board of his decision this evening having originally planned to stay on board for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

The Aughnamullen man replaced Vinny Corey in late Spetember 2024 and his coaching ticket in Year 1 included Andy Moran, who went on to manage Mayo to All-Ireland glory this season, with a Division 2 title the highlight.<\/p>\n

Despite suffering relegation from Division 1 this season, Monaghan bounced back to have an excellent Ulster campaign.<\/p>\n

Jack McCarron’s extra-time forcing side-line against Derry in the semi-final was one of the moments of the year while they also took eventual champions Armagh to extra-time in the provincial final..<\/p>\n

In the All-Ireland series, they had eventual champions Mayo on the ropes before a cruciate injury to Bobby McCaul stalled their momentum.<\/p>\n

\"Monaghan
\nMonaghan enjoyed a famous Ulster semi-final win over Derry in 2026<\/p>\n

They responded with wins over Connacht champions Roscommon and Leinster champions Westmeath before their season came to an end against Louth in the All-Ireland quarter-final.<\/p>\n

In a statement on his exit, Bannigan explained his decision.<\/p>\n

“Over the last number of weeks, I worked hard on my plans for 2027 to build on the excellent foundations now in place.<\/p>\n

“During this period, I have come to realise that the goalposts have moved, and the conditions are not right for me to continue and therefore I believe a new management team and fresh voices are now required to take Monaghan football forward.<\/p>\n

“I wish my successor and everyone involved with Monaghan GAA the very best of luck in 2027 and beyond.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Bannigan has stepped down as Monaghan manager after two seasons in charge of the Oriel County citing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-606843","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\/606843","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=606843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}