Coaching ideas worth taking onto the pitch.

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...

By John Murphy MSc PhD researcher

Before we go into any details, it must be stated that eating terribly in the weeks, months and even years before a game will ...

By John Murphy (MSc, PhD researcher)

Figure 1 – Nutrition Pyramid

Part 1 – Calorie Balance

This series will dive into the various components of nutrition, ho...

By Stephen Lonergan MSc– S&C Coach, PE Teacher and Offaly Minor team coach & selector; Former Offaly Senior Footballer

I was listening to Jim McGuinness talk i...

By Ben Smalley BSc, MSc (Sep 2020), A.S.C.C (ongoing)

Having secured my first role in academy football in June 2019, working alongside Ciaran and Ross at QPR F...

By Stephen Lonergan - MSc– S&C Coach, PE Teacher and Offaly Minor team coach & selector; Former Offaly Senior Footballer

Tactical Periodisation is a coaching m...

By Aidan O Brien – former Wexford Gaelic Football Manager (and life-long Wolves supporter!!)

Walking down from the stands in Anfield on Sunday last I stopped t...

By Ciaran Deely

A shortened version of this article first appeared in the Irish Examiner Newspaper on Friday 13.09.2019

You hear a lot in the media and from o...

By Aidan McCarron – MSc Sports Performance

During a chat with my good friend and mentor Ryan Whitley (one of the leading Strength and Power coaches operating i...

By Mark Deely

I am now a Hardman.

http://www.hardman.ie/index.php/hardman-killarney

Never thought I’d get to say that.  Well I hoped I would but 10 days on i...