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 […]
Kieran Donnelly to take charge of Ulster team for upcoming inter-provincial series
October 1, 2024
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 […]
JOE BROLLY: More boring than baseball
September 29, 2024
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: The plan is here
September 12, 2024
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 […]
JOE BROLLY: The FRC are looking into the wrong problem
September 8, 2024
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: It’s Naomh Conaill’s to lose
September 5, 2024
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Poor kickpassing is embolding defensive coaches
August 22, 2024
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: I fear for the future of football if the rules stay the same
August 8, 2024
T’S club championship time up and down the country this weekend as all focus now turns back for the club scene. Here in Donegal we have a league format where you play four games and then based on where you finish after that will determine how and where you enter the championship. It’s a bit […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Quarter-final borefests
July 4, 2024
AND then there were four. Last weekend’s games went pretty much as we thought they would apart from the one massive upset which we will get into later. A lot of people have been critical of the Armagh performance, but to me, they did exactly what they had to do in order to get over […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Group stage finale doesn’t get the pulse racing
June 13, 2024
WE are at the stage of the group stages of this year’s All-Ireland series and finally we should see some real championship matches this weekend. A lot has been said and written about the format of the championship this year. I do think that perhaps we might see some changes to this in the future […]