Laois GAA confirm senior, U-20 and minor football managers for 2027 season
Justin McNulty, Mark Bates and Chris Conway were all ratified at Monday night’s county board meeting
The Laois GAA football managers for the 2027 season were officially ratified at Monday evening’s county board meeting.
The Laois GAA Executive Committee had brought forward a single nomination for each of the senior, U-20 and minor management roles.
Justin McNulty will remain as Laois Senior Football manager for 2027, taking his current term to four years. No contract length extension was specified when he was ratified. The 2002 All-Ireland winner with Armagh as a player was ratified alongside his selectors, Ross Munnelly and Diarmuid Carroll.
The U-20 football manager will be current Courtwood boss Mark Bates, who previously took charge of the Laois minor footballers in 2020 and 2021. Courtwood’s Robert Flynn and Clonaslee St Manman’s Niall Corbet will join him as selectors.
The final football management role to be filled on Monday was the Laois minor position, which went to former Laois senior footballer Chris Conway from Arles-Kilcruise.
Conway was part of the panel when the Laois minor footballers won the All-Ireland minor title in 1996 and was also on the Laois team that were crowned Leinster Senior Football champions in 2003. Conway was a selector with the Laois senior footballers when Billy Sheehan was manager in 2022 and 2023.
With all three appointments now confirmed, attention will turn to preparations for the 2027 inter-county season.