Kerry chairman Tim Murphy has defended the appointment process which saw Jack O'Connor installed as senior football manager for a third time last night.

At an online county board meeting, O'Connor was ratified for a two-year term in succession to Peter Keane. Diarmuid Murphy and Micheál Quirke were also appointed as selectors, with the remainder of O'Connor's backroom still to be finalised. O'Connor's return comes after the county board decided not to reappoint Keane in the wake of the Kingdom's All-Ireland SFC semi-final defeat to Tyrone.

Murphy strongly rejected suggestions that the process was not above board, hitting out at the "false and misleading information" surrounding it. He said the decision to nominate O'Connor's management team was only made on the day it was officially announced, September 24.

“We made our final decision on this last Friday week,” Murphy told delegates.

“The suggestion about it being a done deal going back three or four weeks ago is again totally erroneous, totally untrue and totally unfounded.

“And I find it very disheartening and very disconcerting that people would actually believe that five people of the integrity and the character that were on that selection committee would in any way sully the reputation of Kerry in any form or fashion. I think it’s disgraceful, it’s the lowest of the low.”

 

 

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