Laois senior football champions Portarlington will be managed by former Roscommon football boss Anthony Cunningham for the 2023 season.
Cunningham takes the reins of the successful Portarlington side that have won the last three Laois senior football titles. They also managed to reach the Leinster semi-final stage during the last two seasons in which Dublin club Kilmacud Crokes beat them both times.
Most recently Cunningham (57) guided Roscommon to victory over Galway in the Connacht Senior Football Championship final. He also helped the county win Division 2 of the football league in 2020 and 2022.
Portarlington GAA are pleased to officially announce that Anthony Cunningham will be ratified as our new senior football coach, at a special executive meeting tonight.
We are delighted to have Anthony and his team on board. pic.twitter.com/gH0RDPqbxj— Portarlington GAA Club (@PortGAA) December 12, 2022
A Tweet from the GAA account read: "Portarlington GAA are pleased to officially announce that Anthony Cunningham will be ratified as our new senior football coach, at a special executive meeting tonight. We are delighted to have Anthony and his team on board."
In August, Cunningham stepped down as Roscommon senior football boss after four years in charge.
Before that Cunningham’s inter-county experience included spells with the Galway hurlers as manager and a spell coaching the Dublin senior squad.
At club football level, Cunningham has triumphed with St Brigid’s of Roscommon and Garrycastle of Westmeath, steering both to county senior championship wins. In 2006 he guided St Brigid’s to their first Connacht title and in 2011 managed Garrycastle to their breakthrough Leinster final win.
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