Oisín McConville says he is unsure of whether he will look to extend his time in charge of the Wicklow senior footballers following their Tailteann Cup semi-final defeat to Limerick on Sunday, amid the burden that inter-county management can have on his family.
The Armagh great guided the Garden County to the last four of the second tier competition but ultimately fell short in the closing stages at Croke Park as Limerick reeled them in.
But as to whether McConville will choose to extend his three-year tenure into 2026 or beyond, that is a matter in which he will consult his close ones given the huge commitment levels involved in inter-county management.
"I was just saying, I don't have the full say in that. It is a massive commitment up and down that road," he told RTÉ Sport's Adrian Eames after the 2-18 to 1-17 defeat to Limerick.
"I've a young family, wife, and they'll have a say in what happens from here. So to be honest, I don't really know.
"But I just know there's so much more left in that team and whether I'm part of that or not remains to be seen."
He added: "I am uncertain because it's a very selfish exercise on my part. There's three kids at home, the wife, and they're picking up a lot of slack whenever I head away and the commitment at inter-county level plus the travel and everything else, and the heartache and the coming home not in the best of form is tight going for everybody.
"So they'll have to be involved in that decision and my three-year term is up anyway, so that remains to be seen. There's a lot of stakeholders but the most important ones are at home."
Elaborating on the potential he sees in the current Wicklow panel, McConville said they have enough about them to push on again even if the chance to rectify the disappointment of 2025 will have to wait until the start of next year.
"They need to start realising that they are capable of playing at this level and I think today in patches showed that, even though I don't think we played that well," he said.
"And the key now for them is to try and kick on and put Wicklow on the map because I do think there's enough good players in there to win a Tailteann Cup, to get promoted from Division 4, and we haven't done any of those things this year and that hurts."
