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 noticed a quote on the wall of the office, it was from Sir Alex Ferguson and it read, “Sports Science, without question is the biggest and mo...

By Ciaran Deely MSc MA – Sport Scientist at QPR FC Academy and CEO of Deely Sport Science Ltd

*This article first appeared in the Irish Examiner newspaper on Monday 19.04.2021 where 15 well-known coaches from around Ireland discussed the impending return of GAA action post-COVID lockdown.

GAA Inte...

By Luke Barrett (LB GAA & Performance)

Introduction

The GAA since its establishment in Hayes Hotel Thurles in 1884 has arguably been the life and soul of Irish society. In 2020 we were stunned by the global pandemic of Covid 19 which made

us all reflect on what was important to us and what was pe...

By John Murphy PhD(c)

 A common misconception when providing nutrition guidance for females is that they are simply smaller versions of men. While females are smaller, on average, than males there is more complexity when considering nutrition recommendations. The main aspect to consider is the mens...

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 some advice & steps that coaches can take to help their female athletes. We’ll also link some resources for you to find out more about the topi...

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, nutrition plan etc, such as

• What are the demands of the sport?
• What physiological condition should players in that sport be in?
• What phy
...

By John Connellan

A chairde, I am writing this open letter out of an abundance of concern for the game of football following the most recent mauling at the hands of Dublin of a proud county in the Leinster Championship. I will start this letter by saying that I am a huge admirer of Dublin. The work...

Today Deely Sport Science are delighted to announce our latest new sign up to our coaching cohort as part of Deely Sport Science- Steven Poacher. Steven is coming on board as a new Coaching Consultant, with most of his work looking into GAA performance, and especially Gaelic Football. This is a bril...

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 not be counteracted by the perfect pre-game meal. For those of us who have got our nutrition nailed down during the week, are at an appropri...

By John Murphy (MSc, PhD researcher)

Figure 1 – Nutrition Pyramid

Part 1 – Calorie Balance

This series will dive into the various components of nutrition, how they drive changes in the body and how this impacts both health and performance. The most popular goals people have in terms of nutri...

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 in a webinar a few weeks ago and one thing I noted was that when Jim was describing the week for soccer players he used the terminology assoc...

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.C. I thought I’d share some of my experiences and some tips, in the hope to help some young coaches along their way into this field:

‘Gett...