Padraic Davis

Padraic Davis
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Forward
Born	28\12\75; County Longford, Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
1991 - Present	Fr Manning Gaels
Club titles
Longford titles	4
Leinster titles	0
All-Ireland Titles	0
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1995 - 2007	Longford

Padraic Davis is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player. He played for the Fr Manning Gaels club and the Longford county team. He also managed the Longford county team.

Playing career[]

Davis played for the Fr Manning Gaels club, winning four Longford Senior Football Championships, three consecutively from 1996–98, and again in 2001.

He played for Longford for 12 years from 1995 to 2007. He was Longford's leading forward for many years in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and one of the greatest players the county has ever produced. He won an O'Byrne Cup with Longford in 2000.

Davis played for Leinster in the Railway Cup (1998–2004), winning it on two occasions.

Managerial career[]

After retiring from playing Davis began managing at club and inter-county level. In 2010, he managed his home club St Vincent's to a Longford Minor Football Championship. That same year he was the forwards coach to the Longford minor team which won the Leinster Minor Football Championship. He was manager of the Longford under-21 team, which he led to a Leinster Final in 2011, but lost out to Wexford by a point. He was also Longford junior manager during this time and was a coach/selector with the Longford senior team in 2011, 2012 and 2013, winning Division 3 and 4 National League titles in that period.

In 2015, Davis became manager of Mohill GAA in County Leitrim. During three years at the helm, he won two Senior Championships, two U-21 Championships, as well as three consecutive Senior Leagues.

Davis took over as manager of the senior Longford footballers in the latter part of 2018. He was given a two-year extension in 2020 until the end of 2022.^[1]^[2] But he quit at the end of the 2021 season after losing to Meath by 22 points, referring to his family, his "property market" job and the difficulties of managing at that level.^[3]

References[]

^ "Davis handed another two years with Longford". Hogan Stand. 2 December 2020.
^ "Longford extend Padraic Davis' reign as manager until end of 2022". RTÉ Sport. 1 December 2020.
^ "Padraic Davis calls time with Longford after heavy Meath defeat". RTÉ. 4 July 2021.

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[1] "Davis handed another two years with Longford". Hogan Stand. 2 December 2020.

[2] "Longford extend Padraic Davis' reign as manager until end of 2022". RTÉ Sport. 1 December 2020.

[3] "Padraic Davis calls time with Longford after heavy Meath defeat". RTÉ. 4 July 2021.

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