BREAKING: McCabe strongly linked with vacant Westmeath manager's position

Former Cavan great Dermot McCabe is the latest name being linked with the vacant Westmeath senior football manager's position.

McCabe managed Gowna to the last two SFC titles in Cavan and was a All Star footballer in 1997.

Lar Wall, who managed The Downs, is another being linked with the vacancy. He was also a candidate for the Meath position taken up by Robbie Brennan.

Clubs are due to meet on Tuesday evening in the Mullingar Park hotel to ratify a new senior football manager over two months after Dessie Dolan stood down. It is at this stage a dragged out process and with the Lake County senior side facing a period of transition, not many high-profile candidates were prepared to take on the challenge.

Still, Dessie Dolan did secure promotion to Division 2 of the National Football League last year and leaves the county in good position after some decent displays against top counties in the All-Ireland series. Westmeath will take on Kildare in the Leinster quarter-final next year, with the winners facing Louth, Wexford or Laois, so the opportunity to get to a provincial final has opened up.

Gowna clubman McCabe played at senior level for Cavan from 1994 to 2010, usually at midfield although sometimes at full-forward. He made 132 appearances, including 43 in the championship and 30 in the Ulster Championship and finished with a tally of 16-228 to his name, of which 5-70 came in championship football.