{"id":218530,"date":"2025-12-06T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218530\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:38:22","slug":"cork-senior-football-team-doctor-is-the-new-ballincollig-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218530\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork senior football team doctor is the new Ballincollig manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aidan Kelleher has been confirmed as the new Ballincollig football manager ahead of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Clondrohid native replaces Podsie O\u2019Mahony after the latter departed his role recently after six seasons in charge.<\/p>\n

The new boss served as a selector under O\u2019Mahony over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

\"BenBen O’Connell on the move for Ballincollig against St Finbarr’s this year. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

Kelleher has been based in Ballincollig for many years and is currently the team doctor with the Cork senior football team.<\/p>\n

He would be very familiar with the Collig players and knows what is required. He has also been involved with UCC.<\/p>\n

Paddy O’Shea will remain as coach with the Village. The former Cork senior football goalkeeper was brought in before the 2025 season got underway.<\/p>\n

The St Vincent\u2019s clubman made a big impression on the group this year in what is a youthful panel with potential to kick on.<\/p>\n

Former Cork footballer Noel Galvin is on board as a selector. The sticky defender back in the day was part of the Ballincollig team that won their maiden top-tier football championship title in 2014.<\/p>\n

Ballincollig will find out their 2026 McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC group stage opponents on Tuesday when the draws are made at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh from 6.30pm.<\/p>\n

\"Ballincollig'sBallincollig’s Noel Galvin gets away from Nemo Rangers’ James Masters in 2014. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n

The Muskerry side reached the last four this year where they lost to the eventual winners of the competition in the shape of St Finbarr\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Since the restructuring of the championship before the 2020 season, Ballincollig have qualified out of their group every year apart from 2021.<\/p>\n

On top of reaching the semi-finals this year, they also made it to the last four in 2022 where they were beaten by Nemo Rangers.<\/p>\n

The new football manager will be working closely with Ballincollig’s new Head of Athletic Development Gordon Brett.<\/p>\n

The latter has over 15 years of experience in professional sport, as he brings a wealth of knowledge across strength and conditioning, sport science and return-to-play having held roles with Munster, Leinster and Limerick FC.<\/p>\n

He has coached across rugby, GAA and athletics, and lectures on athletic development and strength and conditioning. Brett replaces Kevin Smith in the role.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Robbie O\u2019Dwyer has committed his future to Nemo Rangers by remaining on as manager for next season.<\/p>\n

He has completed two campaigns at the helm and had been pondering his future in recent weeks, but he\u2019s staying put.<\/p>\n

\" Nemo Rangers manager Robbie O’Dwyer. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

The city club have lost the last three Premier SFC finals for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n

Since winning the Andy Scannell trophy in 2022, they have lost to Castlehaven twice and St Finbarr\u2019s in the decider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That success three years ago was Nemo Rangers\u2019 23rd time winning the top-tier football championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aidan Kelleher has been confirmed as the new Ballincollig football manager ahead of the 2026 campaign. The Clondrohid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-218530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115672665761543891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}