Brian McEniff
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Born |
1 December 1942 Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland |
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| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| ? – ? | St Joseph's | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| ? – ? | Donegal | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| All Stars | 1 | ||
Brian McEniff (born 1 December 1942) is a former Gaelic football manager. Regarded as a Gaelic football Godfather-type figure, the high point of his managerial career was his masterminding of Donegal's 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final victory over Dublin. In his most recent spell as manager of his county team he led them to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals in 2003.
McEniff has also managed Ulster for 25 years from 1982 until 2007, and has coached the Ireland international rules football team to victory over the Australia international rules football team in Australia. As a player, he received an All Star Award in 1972 and twice won the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
Born in Bundoran, County Donegal, McEniff's parents were Mr. John McEniff from Newbliss, County Monaghan, and Elizabeth Begley from Carrickmore, County Tyrone. They were married in Bundoran in 1935. McEniff has three brothers: P. J. McEniff (retired dentist), Sean McEniff (Donegal County Councillor) and Liam McEniff (doctor), and one sister, Mary McGlynn (retired hotel accountant).
"From the age of eight or nine my mother had me washing dishes on a biscuit tin at the Holyrood, " Brian said in a Tribune interview in 2004.
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