Kevin McStay

Mayo GAA announced the news tonight, with the former Roscommon manager appointed on a four-year term. His backroom team includes Stephen Rochford, Damien ...

McHale, meanwhile, worked with McStay during their stint in charge at Roscommon, where they won a Connacht title in 2017. Rochford and Buckley worked together at Mayo previously, when Rochford led Mayo to consecutive, one-point defeats in All-Ireland finals to Dublin. McStay has beaten off competition from Ray Dempsey, Mike Solan and Declan Shaw in the race to replace James Horan.

McStay takes over from James Horan, who handed in his notice following Mayo's defeat to Kerry in this year's All-Ireland quarter-final. Confirming the news on ...

Kevin McStay ratified as new Mayo GAA Senior Football manager following a meeting of the Mayo GAA Executive committee and Mayo GAA County Board this evening in Castlebar. Mayo GAA would like to wish Kevin all the best Confirming the news on Monday evening, Mayo GAA tweeted: "Kevin McStay ratified as new Mayo GAA senior football manager following a meeting of the Mayo GAA executive committee and Mayo GAA county board this evening in Castlebar."

Castlebar native Kevin McStay is the new manager of the Mayo senior footballers, and his 'all-star' backroom team will soon be confirmed.

I know a couple of players left throughout the league but that was just personal stuff, it wasn't anything to do with Kevin himself. During his spell as manager of Roscommon, McStay led the county to a 2017 Connacht SFC title. It was just themselves not feeling like they were fitting into the team or just not going as well as they thought they would. That there are other people who are in the race but not saying it. "Yet, 24 hours after that interview, one or two friends of mine in Mayo were able to tell me 'you are not going to get the that job'. "The interview I did, perhaps, I might have been too honest at it," McStay told Off The Ball, in 2021.