Eamonn Murray

Originally from Cavan GAA club Gowna,^[1][2][3] Murray spent several decades living in County Meath, and thought of Seán Boylan as someone he would "try to learn" from during this time.^[2] 1987 and 1988 All-Ireland SFC winner Liam Harnan is a brother-in-law.^[2] Murray is married to Harnan's sister.^[4] Harnan's nephew, the 2023 Tailteann Cup winner Padraic, is another relative.^[2]

Murray won the 2009 All-Ireland U16FC and 2016 All-Ireland MFC B titles, sides that featured many of the players from his future successes, before being appointed as manager of the senior team in 2017.^[5] He then brought the team as far as the 2018 and 2019 All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies' Football finals, before winning the 2020 edition.^[5]

He won the 2021 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, defeating a Dublin team seeking a fifth consecutive title in the final.^[6][7]

He then won the 2022 All Ireland Senior Ladies' Football title.^[8][9][10]

He resigned as Meath manager at the end of August 2022.^[11] Murray said he had been thinking about doing so since that year's All-Ireland final had ended.^[12][13] He previously stated his hopes that his work with Meath would help other teams, such as Kerry, to make a breakthrough in the sport.^[14] He had led Meath to the top from the Intermediate class.^[15] He was also in charge of the team when they won Division 2 and Division 1 league titles.^[16]

Murray described the AFLW, the semi-professional Australian rules football league, as "dreadful stuff" with "no skill at all".^[1] He said that the loss of his players to the AFLW was why he cried after the 2022 final.^[17]

From August 2023, he began working as assistant manager of Cavan and mentor to newly appointed manager Raymond Galligan.^{[2][3][18][19]} Galligan was the second-youngest inter-county manager at the time, and had just retired from playing inter-county football.^[20]