Ray Dempsey is a

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and former player. He has been manager of the Limerick county team since 2022. Dempsey played for

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in the

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and in the

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s. He got 64 appearances out of Mayo over the years and he hit 16–97 so that makes him part of Mayo's top 10 scorers since 1950. Dempsey was a losing finalist for Mayo again but this time it was in 2022 Hunt.

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bet him in the end to take the

job of him.

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hit out at this decision but then McConville was going to be part of Dempsey's management anyway until he went and took himself away of to

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to try his luck there. A former manager of the mayo minor and under-21 teams, Dempsey was appointed manager of the senior Limerick team on a two-year term, announced on 7 October 2022.

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