Sligo senior football champions Tourlestrane are looking for a new manager for the 2022 season following the depature of Kevin Johnston to Corofin.
The news was announced by the Galway club on Monday evening.
Johnston takes over from Kevin O’Brien, who stood down as Corofin bainisteoir in October following their county final loss to Mountbellew-Moylough.
Johnston, who lives and works in Galway, succeeded Eamonn O’Hara and Gerry McGowan as Tourlestrane manager in 2021 – and guided the south Sligo club to a sixth consecutive senior county title this year.
Tourlestrane subsequently won their first Connacht club championship game for a decade when they beat St Kiernan’s of London last month, before losing out narrowly to Mayo champions Knockmore in the provincial semi-final (0-10 to 0-8).
Kevin Johnson is New Senior Manager.
The Dec meeting of the General committee of the club ratified the appointment of Kevin Johnson as Senior team Manager. The club welcomes Kevin to his new position & wishes himself, his management team & the Senior panel every success 2022.💚💛 pic.twitter.com/C72FX1SL54— Corofin.GAA (@CorofinGAA) December 27, 2021
Johnston is a native of Gurteen in Sligo (His father Denis steered Eastern Harps to four Sligo senior titles) and previously established his managerial credentials as manager of Ballintubber in Mayo, guiding them to back-to-back senior titles in 2018 and 2019.
