Abbeylara defeat puts Frankie Dolan in the frame for Longford job!

Frankie Dolan is apparently in the frame for the vacant Longford senior football job in the aftermath of Abbeylara’s defeat against Killoe in the Senior Football Championship semi-final on Saturday evening last.

The former Roscommon star, who guided Abbeylara to Connolly Cup glory in 2024 and was in his third season in charge of the north Longford team, has indicated that he is interested in succeeding Mike Solan as the county boss.

Longford GAA have con­firmed that “we hope to be meet­ing him (Dolan) and a num­ber of oth­ers” in the selection process.

Frankie was part of the Wick­low man­age­ment team for the past two sea­sons, help­ing Oisin McCon­ville’s squad to win the Tail­teann Cup in July.

Solan surprisingly stood down in August after two sea­sons, des­pite steer­ing Long­ford to pro­mo­tion from Divi­sion 4 last spring, and has sub­sequently taken over Offaly.

A class act attacker, Dolan won a Con­nacht SFC medal with Roscom­mon in 2001 and kicked the win­ning point as St Bri­gid’s Kiltoom made his­tory by claim­ing the 2013 All-Ire­land club senior title.

Fabulous Frankie also played a major role in Ballymahon’s historic senior football championship success in 2002.