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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

By Ciaran Deely

Really excellent article in Runners World from Alex Hutchinson regarding what’s he’s learned about running and the sport science and performance in of endurance events over his athletic and journalistic career called The Seven Pillars of Running Wisdom (see link...

By Ciaran Deely

I’m in the Barbican Centre in London on my laptop working through my daily tasks, when my minds begins to wander- I’m thinking about my working day and trying to be more productive and make it more enjoyable…when a very interesting article is pinged through to...

by Ciaran Deely

There has been much debate concerning the proposed Gaelic Football championship restructure recently, and especially with Congress on this coming weekend and the County Representatives about to vote on it. Director General of the GAA, Pauric Duffy set forth his plans many months...