Offaly Senior Football 2026
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2025 2:33 am
With the 2025 thread now starting to chat about the upcoming year, and new panel, challenge matches etc., probably time to begin afresh.
Biggest thing this year will be survival at D2, and the most interesting thing in the off season has to be what kind of panel we have come Louth in January.
From last year, Ru Mac and Nigel Retired.
Cian Farrell isn’t involved for 2026.
Bourke is off to Oz.
Dylan Hyland, Tierney, Furlong, Dunican and Flynn injured, possibly more.
We’ve seen a good few new faces in the recent challenge match with Mayo. Johnson, Harry Plunkett, Conor Dunican, Darragh Flynn, Harry Goulding and Kaelum Bryan from Edenderry. Eoin Dunne, Ciaran Murphy from Dublin. Nathan Poland has been brought back, as has Dan Molloy. A few more for sure.
A rough guess of the Louth team is;
1. Chip O’Toole
2. Lee Pearson
3. David Dempsey
4. Daire McDaid
5. Shane O’Toole Green
6. Marcas Dalton
7. Cormac Egan
8. Jack McEvoy
9. Jordan Hayes
10. Ciarán Murphy
11. Diarmuid Egan
12. Keith O’Neill
13. Jack Bryant
14. Cian Johnson
15. Harry Plunkett
Definitely will need our injured players to return. The last time out in D2, a win versus Down and a draw vs Meath saw us fall just short of survival.
The last few years, even 2-3 wins have seen teams relegated so we really need to set our sights on Louth, Kildare, Cavan, Cork, and Meath. I see Tyrone being All Ireland contenders let alone winning D2, and I can’t see Derry being anyway as bad as the last 2 years.
4 home games, and the games you’d expect to lose (Derry and Tyrone) are away so I wouldn’t even expect anything there. We’ve been well matched with Kildare and were a few meters away from a 3rd win from 3 last year. We should’ve beaten Meath. I don’t see a lot in Cork or Cavan. Louth are good but we have them at a nice time and it’s new management so I wouldn’t write us off. A messy enough Offaly team brought them to extra time only 2 years ago.
Glass half full as always.
Up the Faithful.
Biggest thing this year will be survival at D2, and the most interesting thing in the off season has to be what kind of panel we have come Louth in January.
From last year, Ru Mac and Nigel Retired.
Cian Farrell isn’t involved for 2026.
Bourke is off to Oz.
Dylan Hyland, Tierney, Furlong, Dunican and Flynn injured, possibly more.
We’ve seen a good few new faces in the recent challenge match with Mayo. Johnson, Harry Plunkett, Conor Dunican, Darragh Flynn, Harry Goulding and Kaelum Bryan from Edenderry. Eoin Dunne, Ciaran Murphy from Dublin. Nathan Poland has been brought back, as has Dan Molloy. A few more for sure.
A rough guess of the Louth team is;
1. Chip O’Toole
2. Lee Pearson
3. David Dempsey
4. Daire McDaid
5. Shane O’Toole Green
6. Marcas Dalton
7. Cormac Egan
8. Jack McEvoy
9. Jordan Hayes
10. Ciarán Murphy
11. Diarmuid Egan
12. Keith O’Neill
13. Jack Bryant
14. Cian Johnson
15. Harry Plunkett
Definitely will need our injured players to return. The last time out in D2, a win versus Down and a draw vs Meath saw us fall just short of survival.
The last few years, even 2-3 wins have seen teams relegated so we really need to set our sights on Louth, Kildare, Cavan, Cork, and Meath. I see Tyrone being All Ireland contenders let alone winning D2, and I can’t see Derry being anyway as bad as the last 2 years.
4 home games, and the games you’d expect to lose (Derry and Tyrone) are away so I wouldn’t even expect anything there. We’ve been well matched with Kildare and were a few meters away from a 3rd win from 3 last year. We should’ve beaten Meath. I don’t see a lot in Cork or Cavan. Louth are good but we have them at a nice time and it’s new management so I wouldn’t write us off. A messy enough Offaly team brought them to extra time only 2 years ago.
Glass half full as always.
Up the Faithful.