Exactly what caused the turmoil currently engulfing Donegal football will surely emerge with the fullness of time but the chaos has reached something of a nadir given the news which has emanated from Tir Chonaill this evening.
Highland Radio began reporting the following around lunchtime – “It seems Paddy Carr has resigned as Donegal Senior Team Manager. Speculation is mounting in the county he has stepped away from the role”.
That such has turned out to be the case has to be seen to be a sad end indeed to the homecoming for the former Donegal defender who played a lot of his club football with Walterstown in Co Meath and managed them as well as several other club sides and the Meath Minor and Louth Senior county teams.
Of greater pertinence to the bigger picture though, it marks a whole new level of dung being foisted upon that which has engulfed Donegal football basically from the time they exited the Championship last summer. Between Declan Bonner stepping down, Michael Murphy retiring and, even pointedly to this case, Karl Lacey – and all the appended coaches in the Academy he directed – and Rory Kavanagh not making his services available to the County Board – in the guise of being a candidate to replace Bonner.
A position he would surely have attained had he sought it. With all that’s going on up there at the minute, the job must be considered something of a poisoned chalice. So you’d hope whoever does end up with it now has all their vaccinations up to date!
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