JIM Gavin has the air of a fresh faced young Mormon selling bibles door to door. Serene as the buddha, he could persuade you of almost anything. Imagine him as a US trial lawyer, beaming down from a gigantic billboard, with the slogan: Honest Jim Gavin, Trial attorney. Just because you did it doesn’t mean […]
THIS weekend, we face into a massive weekend of football but it’s the action at Croke Park that may change the entire Gaelic football landscape and how it is played for years to come. On Friday evening, the interprovincial series makes a return. While that is nice to see that in itself, the biggest excitement […]
By Shaun Casey MONAGHAN goalkeeper Rory Beggan is “excited” by the new rule enhancements that will be trialed at Croke Park over the weekend and hopes they will improve Gaelic football as a spectacle. Jim Gavin’s FRC committee have brought forward seven new rules that will change the face of the sport. A number of […]
Jim Gavin and the Football Review Committee have revealed their proposed seven core enhancements to help shape Gaelic Football. Michael McMullan spoke with a referee, player and coach to get thoughts on the proposals. Barry Dillon (Ulster University and Truagh manager) COACHES and managers look at rule changes in the same way. How do they […]
By Michael McMullan FERMANAGH manager Kieran Donnelly will manage the Ulster team for the upcoming inter-provincial games later this month, Gaelic Life can confirm. The Brookeborough man, now going into his fourth season as Erne manager, was approached by Football Review Committee Chairman Jim Gavin to look after the Ulster side. The Irish Examiner have […]
A MODERN coach/manager has finally broken ranks to say what we are all thinking. This week, Professor Niall Moyna, a state of the art expert who has managed DCU to four Sigerson Cups, was a selector and advisor to the St Vincent’s All-Ireland winning club team of 2008 and an integral part of Pat Gilroy’s […]
AT I sat down to pen this week’s column, I’ve actually had to check myself. Normally I’m quite upbeat about things and take a positive outlook and it’s just dawned on me that my last couple of articles have had a negative slant. Maybe this realisation was brought on by the fact that I spent […]
YOU probably haven’t heard of little Tommy Loughran, the coal man’s son. He is 13 years old, two footed and fast. Last weekend, his tiny club Lissan met Glen, the giants of Derry club football, in the Derry U-14 championship final. The Wattys’ management assigned two of their children to mark Tommy. So, the two […]
THERE has been a lot of talk and movement around the trial of the new rules and a number of challenge games have taken place. Some of these challenge games involved club teams and others involving county players. First of all, even if we don’t get anything out of these new proposed rule changes then […]
AND just like that, once club championship football comes along, the wind and the rain come to join it. We are getting deep into the rounds of the Donegal Senior Championship here with round three of the group games taking place this weekend. Hopefully after the next round or so then we will see some […]
