Aidan O’Brien has been confirmed as the new manager of the Wexford senior footballers in succession to Jason Ryan.

Westmeath native O’Brien is widely respected, particularly from his feats with Good Counsel College, New Ross, where he helped the school capture the All-Ireland Colleges senior ‘A’ football championship in 1999. Other achievements of note were his remarkable success in moving Adamstown from Junior ranks, through intermediate and straight to the senior football final in successive seasons, between 1995 and 1997. He also had a major bearing upon Horeswood landing their first-ever Wexford senior football championship crown in 2005, before retaining it the following year. O’Brien guided the footballers of Geraldine O’Hanrahans to county Junior honours last year.

He already boasts experience of managing Wexford’s inter-county footballers, having taken care of the minors, while in 2008 he guided the under-21s to the county’s first Leinster championship final in the competition since 1988, only to ultimately lose out to Kildare.

His appointment is viewed as a massive boost to the chances of the senior footballers capitalising more upon the genuine potential which they have demonstrated in recent seasons.