St Pat's make breakthrough in Stephen Kenny talks as decision imminent

David Sneyd THERE WERE SMILES back on the faces of people associated with St Patrick’s Athletic last night.

The FAI Cup-winning boss was dismissed on Tuesday morning and the hunt for a replacement went into overdrive.St Pat’s owner Garrett Kelleher has long wanted the Dubliner to be the man at the helm in Inchicore.Kenny’s success at Dundalk from 2013 to ’18 led to his ascension to the senior Republic of Ireland job via the U21s, a move which was publicly backed in a statement released by Pat’s at the time.

This time things were different and slowly progress has been made with conversations and discussions continuing throughout the week. There are details to iron out but Kenny, who was in charge of the St Pat’s U21s in 1998 before taking the Longford Town job, is expected to reach a decision after this weekend as he weighs up whether the challenge of returning St Pat’s to the summit of the League of Ireland as well as making a mark in Europe has enough of a pull to return to the domestic scene.

“So we had two days prep, it’s never nice when someone loses their job, especially when you’re close to them, our attention and focus had to turn to Shamrock Rovers. Football goes on, the boys bought into everything that we wanted to do in those two days.

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