AS another week ticks by, players are slowly but surely getting their bodies back to some sort of normality. Training will start to become a lot tougher as training-group numbers start to increase and managers ramp things up. I am still playing, or trying to anyway, so I have first-hand knowledge of what players are […]
By Niall McCoy LIKE a lot of other clubs in Down in the 1980s, there was one word that brought a shiver down the spine of Loughinisland – Burren. The Blues entered the decade with one Senior Championship to their name, courtesy of a one-point win over Rostrevor in 1975 having lost the previous three […]
By Niall McCoy FORMER Tyrone defender Justin McMahon believes that Mickey Harte can add a fourth All-Ireland title to his collection before he ends his involvement with the Red Hand county. Harte will lead Tyrone into championship football for the 18th time when the season belatedly gets underway in a few months’ time, and the […]
By Paddy Hunter and Niall McCoy CONFUSION reigns over Conor McKenna’s apparent ‘positive’ Covid-19 test that had seemed to put his Aussie Rules future in doubt. The Eglish man tested positive for the virus on Saturday, but on Tuesday he tested negative, raising the possibility that the weekend’s result was a false positive. Advertisement He […]
Paul McKillen, the All-Star Antrim hurler from Ballycastle tells the story of his career.
IT was 2004 when I stopped watching soccer and abandoned any pretence at fandom. What did it for me was the serialisation of Ashley Cole’s autobiography (how can they call them autobiographies when someone else writes them?) “In My Defence.” That was the year when Cole was in negotiations with Arsenal about a new contract […]
OVER the past few weeks we have been inundated with articles, session templates and more advice than a president would get on the return to play within the GAA. I have my own thoughts on it, and over the past few months I have done a lot of reflecting on how I coach, what my […]
This is it, the roadmap is out and the return to play is so close we can almost touch it. What we need to make sure is that along the road you don’t trip, fall and hurt yourself – metaphorically of course – as the increased risk of injury for players right now is real. […]
“The area of immense interest to me was the importance of detail, not just any kind of detail but the development of things that would and could set us apart from any other team in the world. We had to assume that our main competitors would also have the same quality of players, the same […]
Shauna Coyle from Monaghan answers the famous questions.
