Kevin Cassidy calls on the GAA to prioritise Club action over county.
Anne Marie Mulholland: Now is perfect time to pick up a brand new skill
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May 5, 2020
‘Use this time to your advantage and pick up a brand-new skill’- very wise words from a very wise man. And I completely agree! Many of us have had our regular routines turned upside down and are trying to adjust to changes in our everyday lives. I know for many, we are finding ways to […]
Patrick Morrison: Learn the skill well, at speed, under fatigue, under pressure, consistently
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May 5, 2020
The first four levels of this model are aimed at the mastery and development of the various skills that a goalkeeper will want to learn. From learning the skills and then replicating them at speed, under fatigue as well as under pressure; these four stages are all ‘formative’ in nature. After mastering the skills through […]
Steven Poacher: Gaelic football, a game of space invaders
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May 4, 2020
GAELIC football has become very tactical at the highest level with more and more teams looking to gain that extra edge on the training ground or on the pitch. Ultimately though, as an invasion game, the goal still remains the same, to win the game you must score more that the opposition. The challenge always […]
Madden: I’d love to boss Antrim down the road
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May 2, 2020
FORMER Antrim forward Kevin Madden has admitted that his ambition is to manage his native county, and bring them to the top table. The Portglenone man is currently part of Mickey Harte’s backroom team in Tyrone, and he has said that the experience is helping him to develop as a coach. However, Madden said that […]
Cumann Chat: Discipline, Paul Mannion and GAA in the community
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May 2, 2020
Disciplined teams are winning teams Raymond Munroe told Gaelic Life in a recent article that he was inspired by the advice from Mickey Moran about successful teams. Munroe said that Moran told him, ‘disciplined teams, are winning teams.’ Another piece in last week’s paper saw Kevin Madden explain that in 1996 Henry Downey told him […]
Five Minutes With… Fermanagh’s Jonathan Cassidy
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May 1, 2020
Name: Jonathan Cassidy Age: 21 Occupation: Student Teams played for: Fermanagh, Enniskillen Gaels, UUJ, St Joseph’s Enniskillen Advertisement Game you most enjoyed playing in? Kildare at home in the league last year. It was a battle and the Fermanagh fans got behind us to get us over the line. Game you least enjoyed playing in? […]
Joe Brolly: A GAA community shaped by the Troubles
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April 30, 2020
IN 1969, Francie McCloskey, a well-liked 66-year-old farmer, was batoned to death by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the door-front of Hassan’s draper’s shop on Dungiven Main Street. The joke told about suits from Hassan’s was that the trousers were so flared you had to take two strides before the trousers moved, but […]
Kevin Cassidy: My Donegal managers – 5) Jim McGuinness
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April 30, 2020
AS I made my way out of the changing rooms In Crossmaglen in 2010 after our humiliation against Armagh, I really thought that I had played my last game for Donegal. I was still young and had plenty in the tank, but there were things outside of football that I wanted to hone in on. […]
Shane Elliott: Players, by nature, are competitive animals
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April 30, 2020
A FEW weeks ago, when the current crisis was in its infancy, I started my column referring to the fact that ‘unprecedented’ had become the most frequently used word in the English language. Whilst the word remains prevalent, it has now been superseded by the word ‘uncertainty’. We now find ourselves not really knowing what […]