"I’ve often thought he was a bit like a Jack Walker at Blackburn" - Conor Hoey on having no regrets from Drogheda's big spending era
Vincent Hoey was the club chairman when Drogheda United won the FAI Cup back in 2005 and the league title, under Paul Doolin, two years later.

Drogheda United’s big-spending era in the mid-noughties brought unprecedented success to the club before subsequent financial difficulties in the years that immediately followed brought the club to examinership - and the brink of extinction.