Former county coach appointed manager of leading Dublin club

Lar Wall has been appointed as the new senior football manager of leading Dublin club St Jude’s.

It comes on the back of the Laois native missing out on the manager’s jobs in Meath and Westmeath, counties where he has extensive experience on the club circuit, as those posts went to Robbie Brennan and Dermot McCabe respectively.

Wall comes from the Arles Kilcruise club, with whom he won a historic first ever Laois SFC as a player in 2003 and later went on to manage Gaeil Colmcille in Meath though he enjoyed his greatest success with The Downs in Westmeath, winning the club’s first county title in 17 years in 2022 and steering them to the Leinster club final, which they lost to Kilmacud Crokes.

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He was part of the Roscommon management team for the past season as a coach under Davy Burke, though he departed that role after this year’s Championship.

St Jude’s made an early exit from this year’s Dublin SFC as they finished third in a group containing eventual winners Cuala, Clontarf and Fingallians, against whom they scored their only win.

They have been a consistent presence at the back end of the competition over the years, however, suffering final defeats to Kilmacud in 2018 and ‘21.

However, the club will be hopeful of re-establishing themselves as frontline contenders in the coming seasons having won their first ever minor A football title earlier this month.

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