Treat children like children, not mini adults

“Sure stick him in corner forward. He’ll have the beating of their corner back for pace”, said every gaelic football club manager ever as the rising 16 year old star makes his premature debut for the senior team. Often times this 16 year old might not even be that particularly talented, numbers are just low on the day and…

Stop!….Hammer Time

After 6 years of continued studying, 4 in Ireland and the latter 2 in Scotland, I returned home and successfully secured employment near to home.  Leaving was a big deal for me at the time but having kept myself reasonably active while away playing Gaelic football and running more I still felt I had unfinished business…