Gaelic Games
McEniff's success in Gaelic games culminated when he led his native Donegal team to glory over Dublin at Croke Park in the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.
In his playing career, he was player-manager of the first Donegal team to win an Ulster Senior Football Championship title in 1972, and was also the recipient of an All Star award in 1972.
He has won numerous titles with his home club of Bundoran, the famous St. Joseph's combination of Bundoran and Ballyshannon, Donegal and Ulster. He won his last County Senior Football Championship with Bundoran in 1979, which included the late Brendan McHugh and Seamus Reilly, both county representatives for Sligo, Mayo and Donegal.
Under his leadership Ulster won 12 Railway Cup Finals. In 1975 he assisted the Sligo team and achieved victory when they won the Connacht Senior Football Championship. He also managed the Ireland international rules football team in 2000 and 2001. They went to Australia in October 2001, where they won their games against the Australia international rules football team and he also served on the GAA Central Council.
In 2003, McEniff brought the Donegal team to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals—the last occasion on which they would achieve this feat until the time of the legendary Jim McGuinness. In this year McEniff was also in charge of the county team, and he also managed the Ulster team from 1983 to 2007. McEniff stood down from his position as Ulster manager in 2007, 25 years after taking the job in 1982. He left Donegal in 2005 after a fifth and final tenure in charge ended with a drab qualifier defeat to Cavan at Breffni Park.
He was mentor to Nell McCafferty on the Celebrity Bainisteoir television programme in 2007.
In 2010, he helped Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick in an advisory capacity.
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Famous quotes containing the word games:
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)