BEING an intercounty manager must be great. Jim Gavin was awarded the freedom of Dublin, Mickey Harte received an honorary doctorate a few years back, there’s a statue of Mick O’Dwyer in his native Waterville… Anyway, it’s fair to say that former Fermanagh boss John McElroy probably can’t relate. Running around the county trying to […]
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April 16, 2020
DOWN’S Clara Fitzpatrick has said that the door is open for her to return to the AFLW next season with the Braynsford player stating that she is assessing all options. The St Kilda player saw her promising start to the new season cut short by the coronavirus outbreak, and Down managers Caoibhe Sloan and Peter […]
Five Mins with… Down’s Ryan McAleenan
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April 16, 2020
Name: Ryan McAleenan Age: 28 Occupations: Teacher Teams played for: Warrenpoint and Down Senior footballers Advertisement Game you most enjoyed playing in? Even though we were on the wrong end of the result – last year’s championship match against Mayo in Newry was really enjoyable – great experience playing against one of the best teams […]
Patrick Morrison: Fatigue influences a ‘keeper’s decision-making
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April 16, 2020
This is the third part of Patrick Morrison’s levelled progression Currently we have discussed in previous articles about skill acquisition, learning the textbook skills and evolving them into performance skills, while also completing them at higher intensity levels to ensure that they are mastered fully. Once the goalkeeper has mastered the skills and is able […]
Kyle Coney: ‘I’d take any kind of season at this stage’
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April 16, 2020
By Niall Gartland TYRONE playmaker Kyle Coney admits that even a friendly match would be better than nothing as he ponders whether there’ll be any more football this year. It’s understood that the GAA is determined that 2020 won’t be a total write-off and that a period of club activity is now the preferred option […]
Steven Poacher: We aren’t developing the art of defending
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April 16, 2020
OVER the last month, the GAA has been excellent at providing coaches with ongoing learning opportunities through the GAA Coach Webinar series. So far nearly 2,000 coaches nationwide have registered for the events and just last night, over 1,000 coaches tuned in to listen to Stuart Lancaster. One of his key messages for the coaches […]
Pauric Grimes: Now is the perfect time to make a change
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April 16, 2020
IT’S a month from I made the tough call of closing the gym, little did I know four days later the government would make the blanket statement that all gyms would have to follow suit. What that means for most of you, the super smug home gym crew withstanding, is that you haven’t had access […]
Curran ‘hopeful’ a season of sorts can still be played
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April 16, 2020
LFGA have some big decisions to make
Shane Elliott: My top five hurlers of all time
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April 16, 2020
Growing up one of my favourite television programmes was Match of the Day. This was long before wall to wall coverage and numerous live games being available on satellite television. The presenters during those years were Jimmy Hill, who was hard to listen to, and Des Lynam who was a very smooth operator. It’s fair […]
Cahal Carvill: The GAA are to be commended for their reaction to crisis
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April 16, 2020
They’ve shown both social and community leadership