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Identifying football talent: what are we really looking for? By Ciaran Deely PhD gaelic football player development Oct 07, 2026

Identifying football talent: what are we really looking for?

By Ciaran Deely PhD | DSS Coaching

I’ve spent a lot of my sporting life looking at players from d...

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No One Shouted Stop – Until Now: A Reflection on the GAA’s Demographic Report – by Ciaran Deely PhD gaelic football player development Dec 06, 2025

The GAA’s new report, No One Shouted Stop – Until Now, is the most direct and data-driven acknowledgement yet of how Ireland’s changing population is reshaping ...

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Youth Participation in Sport player development Nov 07, 2024

By Timmy Hammersley

What is Youth Participation?

Youth participation is now a buzzword that has become much more recognised and widely promoted within Irish s...

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The Eddie Munnelly Podcast, Unscripted and Creative Coaching coaching & practice design player development Nov 07, 2024

By Ross Bennett

I personally was very keen to get Ed (Eddie Munnelly) onto this podcast, a good friend of mine and someone I have worked with in the past, a co...

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How Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) can be used in sport coaching & practice design player development Nov 07, 2024

By Peter Sweeney

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to briefly describe how the science of applied behaviour analysis (ABA) can support individuals and tea...

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The Three Hats of Management coaching & practice design player development Nov 07, 2024

By Steven Poacher

On a recent visit, just pre-Christmas, with some students from our school to Stat Sports head office in my home town of Newry County Down I n...

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Female Athlete Blog Series: What should coaches know about menstruation? performance & sport science player development Nov 07, 2024

by Caoimhe Morris, Head of Education. 

Following on from last weeks’ overview of menstruation, we’re going to dive into it in a bit more detail and outline som...

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An introduction to Coaching Female Athletes: What should Coaches know? performance & sport science player development Nov 07, 2024

By Caoimhe Morris

With any player, athlete or person, there’s a lot of factors we need to consider when we go into designing a training session, gym session, n...

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The Power of Inclusion in Youth Sport coaching & practice design player development Nov 06, 2024

By Shane Smith – Coach & School Teacher (BSc Sports Science and M.A Primary Ed)

Twitter has afforded me a great platform on the importance of making sport fun ...

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Importance of Emotional Connection in Developing Group Cohesion coaching & practice design player development Nov 06, 2024

By Timmy Hammersley

When we look at performance enhancement what generally comes to mind is a focus on technical, tactical, physical and psychological variable...

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