PREPARATION in the week leading up to a championship plays a crucial role in determining team performance on game day. Competitive teams invest countless hours in training with the goal of peaking at the right time for championship, which is the business end of the season. From a physiological standpoint, players can typically achieve two […]
ULSTER GAA: Find your club compás
August 10, 2024
THE Club Compás Programme gives clubs a digital self-assessment tool to review their performance and get direction on how to address any operational shortcomings. Each club receives a bespoke self-assessment report that scores their performance against best practice. This report also gives them advice on ‘what to do next’ and learning resources available to assist. […]
Antrim must begin the search for new hurling boss
July 22, 2024
By Michael McMullan ANTRIM must begin the search for a new senior hurling manager after news of Darren Gleeson’s decision to step down. The Tipperary All-Ireland winning goalkeeper has stepped down after five seasons in the post. Gleeson steered the Saffrons to two Joe McDonagh titles during a tenure that saw the county’s standards raised […]
Sports mad Portadown school enjoying season of success
June 10, 2024
St John the Baptist College, Portadown is going from strength to strength on the sporting front. Former Down footballer Ryan McAleenan tells us more. Shaun Casey writes… NOT so long ago, Ryan McAleenan had to wander around the corridors of St John the Baptist College, Portadown, inviting students out to the back field for a […]
McElwain returns for a second season of Scéalta na gCorn
May 31, 2024
ULSTER born presenter Gráinne McElwain has been back on the road again putting together a second season of Scéalta na gCorn which returns to TG4 this week. McElwain, a present for GAA Go during this season’s championship, travels across Ireland visiting clubs and county grounds, learning the lesser-known stories behind our nation’s Gaelic games trophies. […]
JOHN McMAHON: Train hard but always recover harder
May 28, 2024
YOUR league season is well underway and as a GAA athlete you’ are trying to plan and structure your weekly training. But are you planning your recovery? Just as hard as our bodies work during exercises in the gym or training on the pitch, players need to work equally as hard to help their bodies […]
This weekend’s live GAA action
June 23, 2023
HERE is the live coverage you can tune into over the weekend. SATURDAY GAAGO:2pm – All-Ireland SFC clash of Cork and Roscommon. TG4: 2.30pm – All-Ireland MFC semi-final of Monaghan and Kerry. Advertisement GAAGO: 4.45pm – All-Ireland SFC meeting of Kildare and Monaghan. GAAGO: 7pm – All-Ireland group clash between Monaghan and Donegal. RTE2: 4pm […]
JOE BROLLY: Saving the national pastime
June 18, 2023
By Joe Brolly LIKE Freddie Kruger re-appearing at the window, the Cats never die. On Sunday, over the course of two electrifying hurling contests (are there any other sort?), I jumped up and sat down. I held my hands over my face. I shouted at the television. I groaned and twisted on the sofa. From […]
JOHN McMAHON: Over-training or under-training?
May 16, 2023
THE goal of training in general should be to do as much as possible, as often as possible and keep improving. Unfortunately, the reality of training is not so simple. While training does trigger positive adaptations and benefits performance in the long-term, this comes at the price of the breakdown of the body and impaired […]
DECLAN McCOY: The extreme weather conundrum
May 1, 2023
I’D like to start this week by thanking my cousin, Armagh’s Aoife McCoy, for a great day at her wedding. A sprained ankle on the dance floor was my punishment for trying to act the young fella. Luckily we got a dry day for it, which has not been the case recently. Every manager and […]