Eamonn Barry is a former Irish

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

manager from

County Meath County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the sou ...

. He has two sons, they are Andrew and Kevin.

Career

He played on the Meath county team in the eighties. He was a member of the Meath team that annexed the Centenary Cup in 1984. He had great success as manager of Dunshaughlin football club in Meath. He became coach of the Meath team for the

2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The 2006 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship began on Sunday 7 May 2006. The 2006 championship used the same "Qualifier" system that was used in 2005. Tyrone were the defending champions, but were knocked out relatively ear ...

, as successor to the long-time manager Sean Boylan. The team won the O' Byrne Cup after beating Offaly in Navan. After a County Board meeting, Barry was replaced by

Colm Coyle Colm Coyle (born 26 February 1963), is a former Gaelic footballer and former manager from County Meath, Ireland. He was manager of the senior Meath county team from September 2006 to July 2008, having previously played for the county. Playin ...

as Meath manager on 11 September 2006. His response was 'I'm not a bit surprised. I've been well aware of the situation for the past couple of months'. He is the current Meath County Coaching Officer, and has been involved with Meath Development squads as Joint Manager, 2014 (Meath U14) and Selector 2015 (Meath U15) since 2013.

References

*http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/0108/obyrne.html *http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2006/0224/1140626815662.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070506013002/http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/0912/meath.html Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Gaelic football managers Meath inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Meath-gaelic-football-bio-stub