Former Antrim star and highly regarded coach Kevin Madden is to join Tyrone’s backroom team.
Boss Mickey Harte confirmed on Monday night that Madden will be part of the set-up in 2020 as the Red Hands look to challenge the supremacy of all-conquering Dublin.
Assistant manager Gavin Devlin is to remain on board but forwards coach Stephen O’Neill stepped away at the end of the season after two years at Garvaghey, while strength and conditioning coach Peter Donnelly left to take up a full-time position with Ulster Rugby.
He had been working with the squad since 2015 but has since been recruited to the backroom team in Monaghan under Seamus McEnaney.
It’s understood that former Ulster Rugby strength and conditioning coach Jonny Davis could be set to replace Donnelly at Tyrone.
Treble All-Ireland winning boss Harte said Madden, one of the top attackers in Ulster during his playing days with the Saffrons and recently a newspaper columnist, will not be specialising in forwards coaching.
“He’s a broad-based coach, he coaches the entirety of the game, and he has managed clubs himself.
“He knows what the game is all about, and what he writes endorses that view, and we’re delighted to have him.”
Madden spent two years as assistant to Derry boss Damian Cassidy and at club level worked with Glenullin and Dungiven in Derry, and managed Creggan to last year’s Antrim football final.
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