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Wed 11 Nov 2002Manager goes quickly with few regretsIn the end it was short, if not sweet. In less than 20 minutes at Dublin's Burlington Hotel last night, Mick McCarthy said his farewells and his 68-match reign as manager of the Irish football team was brought to an end.There were tributes from the FAI and even from one of the fans who had crashed the crowded press conference, but little emotion. McCarthy was proud to have been there for each and every day of the six years and nine months he held the job, he said, but the time had come to depart and he was leaving with his head held high.