This event will see a top class lineup of coaches with several years experience coaching at the top level of Gaelic games.
Our guest coaches will deliver sessions looking at several activities for coaches to apply to their own coaching. There will be an emphasis on applying the new rules to football and they will cover many facets of the modern day game.
First up we will have Irish news columnist and former Antrim player and Derry & Tyrone Coach, Kevin Madden.
After a playing career than spanned over 10 years at County Level, which includes 2 Railway Cup medals, Kevin has moved very quickly to proving himself equally adept at coaching and management.
After two years, as coach/manager of top Derry side Glenullin, he helped deliver a Senior Football Championship for the club, the first in 22 years, and a Division One League title for the first time in the club’s history.
Kevin was assitant manager and coach to the Derry Senior team in 2009 and 2010. In 2020 he took on a coaching role with Mickey Harte’ Tyrone.
Our second guest Coach on the day needs no introduction to the people of Moneyglass. It is of course our long serving County footballer Kevin Brady. Kevin represented Antrim for the best part of 15 years winning an All Ireland ‘B’ in 2000 and then captained his county to the 2008 Tommy Murphy Cup, defeating Mick O’Dwyers Wicklow. He also played centre half forward for Antrim in the 2009 Ulster final.
He is the proud owner of a MacRory cup medal at St. Pats Maghera, a Sigerson cup medal with the University of Ulster Jordantown & a Railway cup with Ulster under Brian McEniff.
Since retiring from playing Kevin is creating a reputation as one of the best coaches in Ulster leading St. Marys Magherafelt to 2 MacRory cups and just last year he oversaw a famous victory over All Ireland champions Glen Maghera to win the Derry Senior football championship with Sean O’Leary‘s Newbridge.
Our final coach of the day will be none other than Donegals Maxi Curran.
Maxi hails from the Downings club and has built up an impressive CV as one of the most sought-after coaches in Ireland.
He was famously part of Jim McGuinnesss‘s back room Team that won the Sam Maguire in 2012 and two years later led St. Eunan’s Letterkenny to the Donegal Senior championship. He was also assistant manager to Rory Gallagher during his tenure as Donegal senior football manager and has worked with their under 21s for several years. He managed Donegal Senior Ladies to 3 Ulster championships and is currently manager of Moneyglass senior Ladies and his own clubs senior men’s team.
To finish off our coaching clinic, we are delighted to have Eunan O’Kane to Deliver a talk on the behaviours associated with high-performance athletes. Eunan hails from the Banagher club in Derry and enjoyed a very successful underage career.
However, he soon turned his attention to a career in professional football playing for famous clubs such as Bournemouth, Leeds United, Torquay & Everton. He was also capped several times for the Republic of Ireland under the management of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane. It will be fascinating to hear firsthand what Gaelic footballers can apply from athletes at the highest level.
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