After the fun is over - Eamonn Murray reflects on Meath tenure

Four weeks on from a delivering a successive TG4 All-Ireland senior success for Meath, Eamonn Murray decided it was time for him to step down as manager.

On reflection it perhaps wasn't a surprise, given his frustration about the departures of Vikki Wall and Orlagh Lally to Aussie Rules and changes to his backroom team.

But what a legacy Murray has left behind him: two All-Ireland senior titles; All-Ireland intermediate success, a Leinster intermediate win and league victories in Divisions 1, 2 and 3.

On his reasons for leaving now, the Boardsmill clubman told RTÉ's Sunday Sport: "I've been thinking about it since the final whistle went [after the All-Ireland final]. With people coming and going, and management going, you'll have to get new coaches in and they'll want to do this differently.

"I'll probably be standing in their way. The best things was a clean break and leave the next management team get on with it. They may want to change things small bit, but I hope they won't.

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"It's never easy to go no matter how good a team are or how bad a team are. I made the decision at home with my wife and four girls. We talked that this was the right time. It's not the end; hopefully there'll be a kick left in me in a few years time."

It took some persuading from those involved in Meath to get Murray to take the senior job, this after the county suffered a humiliating 7-22 to 0-3 defeat to Cork in the 2015 championship.

In outlining how reluctant he was to take the