By Ciaran Deely (MSc MA) CEO of DSS and Sport Scientist QPR FC Academy

Ross Bennett (MSc ASCC BASES) Head of Performance for DSS and QPR FC Academy

This blog comes at a very exciting time for Deely Sport Science, following the release of the detailed season long programme and planner for all GAA...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...