Mervyn Travers is back in football as manager of Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney.

The former Wicklow goalkeeper, whose playing career was ended by a horrific knee injury three years ago, is looking forward to the fresh challenge - at the tender age of 30!

"You have to draw a line at some stage," he tells The Wicklow People. "You have to have a level of enjoyment playing football and that was gone for me.

"A few people around the club had been mentioning the management thing to me and then [club chairman] Ray Menton approached me and I outlined what I was looking for in terms of equipment and support from the club.

"They've got behind me fully and they made it a very difficult job not to take.

"We've been a very poor championship side at senior so I want to get the lads competing in the championship and to maximise their potential.

"You look at the size of the town here and you see what Bray are doing - they went back to the drawing board, so we're trying to emulate what they're doing." Tweet

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