By Ross Bennett - Head of Performance for DSS and QPRF FC Academy

Firstly, I must say, after studying the content and observing Ciaran on his journey of building his company DSS over the years, it is a real pleasure and privilege to become a part of it. I have personally worked with Ciaran continuo...

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 to point out to my son a pair of tram line skid marks approximately 4 metres long running perpendicular to the side-line which were still vis...

By Brian Cuthbert PhD

Some of you may have noticed that the GAA has recently launched a wide-ranging report regarding Gaelic Games academies and their interactions with player development at youth level across the organisation. If you have had the opportunity to read the report, you should hopefull...

By Barry Mullane (MSc Sports Coaching) – Owner and founder of Active Sports Coaching

@barrymullane1 [email protected]

I stood in the middle of the yard at my old primary school, Grange NS recently and I looked up at the old field and saw myself as the 11-year-old boy who used to pl...

By Ciaran Deely

This is a topic of significant sensitivities. How does one respect the gladiators of the colosseum   whilst analysing the challenges facing the GAA?

QPR FC Sport Scientist and former London Senior football team manager Ciaran Deely discusses the Dublin situation in the wider contex...

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 opposition managers that Dublin are so well conditioned that it makes it hard to even compete with them. QPR FC Sport Scientist Ciaran Deely ...

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 in professional sports) of the Brisbane Broncos who was on a visit home to Ireland late 2018, I decided I wanted to finish my Master’s degree...

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...