By Ciaran Deely

* An shortened version of this article first appeared in the Irish Examiner newspaper on Saturday 07.09.2019

Coach and Sport Scientist Ciaran Deely looks at the five areas Jim Gavin and Peter Keane will be focusing on in the interluding two-week period between last week’s ferocious...

By Ciaran Deely

* An shortened version of this article first appeared in the sports website www.the42.ie on Monday 02.09.2019

In a pulsating game, with end to end attacking and the ebb of flow of the great game of Gaelic football at its most exciting, if not highest quality, best…we discovered tha...

By Ciaran Deely

* An edited version of this article first appeared  in the Irish Examiner Newspaper on Friday 30.08.2019

The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines juggernaut as ‘a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force’ and by way of explanation uses ‘the juggernaut thundered through the countryside’ ...

By Ciaran Deely MA MSc CSCS

* An edited version of this article first appeared  in the Irish Examiner Newspaper on Saturday 06.07.2019

Designing a coaching session is easy. Coaching is not! If you know that, you know a lot already.

The sun is shining after my morning run in the park- what I’m kee...

By Gavin Morris – former Wexford Senior Football player and U20 Goalkeeping Coach

Much has been said and written about the many different stakeholders feeding into the hottest and most sensitive topic in the GAA world, the GAA season. What is the GAA season? For some it is an ever-evolving door whe...

By Paul Coady – Carlow Senior Inter-County Hurler

I’m Paul Coady, I’m 26 years of age and I have been hurling intercounty for Carlow for 8 years now. My whole life has always revolved around hurling- for better or worse, I’m so far unsure!

Questioning the GAA feels like being that student in schoo...

By Owen Mooney – Special Olympics Ireland National Coach and Sports Development Coordinator

Former Rockland GAA New York Coach, Ulster GAA Physical Literacy Coach and Ulster Ladies Football Provincial Development Officer

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Children are incred...

By Aidan O’ Brien

The president of the GAA, John Horan, recently announced his intention to push forward plans for a two tiered inter county senior football championship as soon as next year. There has been lots of rumblings about this over the past few years, but it now seems clear that change of ...

By Ciaran Deely

A strange thing happened to me today. After returning from work last night in London, for some reason, I thought about Jim and that I must check in on his progress and how he’s doing as Head Coach of the Charlotte Independence professional soccer team in the USL Eastern Conference i...

By Ciaran Deely

* A shortened edition of this article was first published in the Irish Examiner Newspaper on Saturday 08.06.2019

By the time you read this article, London Senior football team’s 2019 Championship season may be already over. The Qualifiers begin on Saturday, and in all but two of th...

By Ciaran Deely

Last week I was in a café in the centre of Trinidad- a lovely provincial town on the south coast of Cuba- last week having a Cuba Libre cocktail drink while taking a few quiet pulls of a nice homemade Cuban cigar to chill a bit after a day spent horse riding around pristine countr...

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 it is a very satisfying thing to say.  I found myself slipping it into conversation the whole time. In a funny way.  My family are well used ...