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O’Connor: Kerry need Director of Football

Kerry minor manager Jack O’Connor believes that it is time for the Kerry county board to appoint a Director of Football in order to keep talented underage players in place.

He also believes that such a move would help to eliminate player burnout at youth level and assist their deve [..]

Fergal Doherty received his marching orders in Derry’s Allianz Football League semi-final win over Mayo yesterday for this pretty full on collision with Aidan O’Shea.

The big midfielder was already on a yellow card at the time of the tackle, and there seems to be a bit of a split in opinion about whether it was a definite yellow, with some sayin [..]

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Gavin notes the need for consistency

With his Dublin side just one win away from keeping their league title, manager Jim Gavin has said that his side were too inconsistent in their semi-final win over Cork.

Dublin’s second half performance was much better than their first, but Gavin recognises that this must be corrected for [..]

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McGill says black card is doing its job

The GAA’s head of games administration and player welfare Feargal McGill is pleased with a survey that has shown an increase in scoring and decrease in cards.

The survey was carried out to find out what difference the introduction of the black card had made to football, and McGill argu [..]

By David Hare director of Functional Training Ireland, Dave is also one of the founding members of the ISCI.

At FTI we get a lot of people that come in for “a program”, usually the conversation goes on about how the person is getting injured and that they tried a weights program that seemed to be the problem.

The problem is quite complex and [..]

Sinead Farrell looks at the worrying rise in prevalence of the most dreaded of knee injuries in Gaelic Games.

It begins with an awkward fall or an unorthodox twist. Then comes the peculiar popping sound, followed by a relentless inflow of excruciating agony. Anyone who can recall this succession of symptoms will more than likely tell you that th [..]

Cathal MacSuibhne gives his take on the GAA’s broadcasting deal with Sky TV.

Sky Money should go to Support Clubs, but GAA did Deal for Wrong Reasons
On page 180 of the GAA’s Constitution, the following statement defines the lowest outlet of the association, oft described as its most important facet and indeed its bedrock, “The Club is am [..]

Here’s the team of the week from this week’s Allianz Football League Division 1 action.

Goalkeeper

1. Ken O’Halloran (Cork)
O’Halloran was solid for the Rebels when called upon. Could do nothing about Kerry’s goal and didn’t put a foot wrong all day.

Full-back Line

2. Charlie Kielt (Derry)
A good performance from Kielt, scorin [..]