Ger Brennan may or may not be familiar with the work of the Honourable Gentleman for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North but he will increasingly be getting the gist of it. In May 2010, Liam Byrne MP was the outgoing chief secretary of the treasury in the UK as Labour lost power, a job … Read more
Dublin manager Ger Brennan, left, and Mayo manager Andy Moran chat after the Allianz FL Division 1 match in Castlebar. Photo: Ben McShane/Sportsfile “Imagine how much better we would be if this is something that all coaches said before their players competed: ‘Go out there and be boring’.” This is a quote from the ‘world-renowned … Read more
Dublin manager Ger Brennan, left, and Mayo manager Andy Moran chat after the Allianz FL Division 1 match in Castlebar. Photo: Ben McShane/Sportsfile “Imagine how much better we would be if this is something that all coaches said before their players competed: ‘Go out there and be boring’.” This is a quote from the ‘world-renowned … Read more
Ger Brennan: ‘Pity those who make the mistake of underestimating him. He is nobody’s gobshite.’ Photo: Sportsfile There are two things worth knowing about Ger Brennan. One is that he won’t lose a nanosecond’s sleep about what people think about him or if he’s upsetting folk by making a decision or taking a stance on … Read more
Dublin manager Ger Brennan before the loss to Mayo in Castlebar. Photo: Ben McShane/Sportsfile Teams don’t always get the immediate ‘bounce’ anticipated from the arrival of a new manager. Éamonn Fitzmaurice routinely recalls 2013 when Kerry lost the first four Division 1 league games of his stewardship, only scoring an average of a little under … Read more
Dublin manager Ger Brennan, left, and Mayo boss Andy Moran Ger Brennan has hinted that some All-Ireland winners could be facing the axe as he prepares to cull his Dublin panel in the wake of a second consecutive league loss. The Dubs followed up their opening night defeat to Donegal with a disappointing six-point reversal … Read more
Niamh Crowley has no difficulty whatsoever in articulating on the raft of new challenges in women’s Gaelic football. Which is both refreshing and remarkable, given the 21-year-old spent parts of her late childhood learning how to speak all over again. Crowley is already a two-time All-Ireland winner with Dublin, first tasting success in her debut … Read more
Former Dublin footballer John Small at the launch of the Guaranteed Irish campaign entitled ‘Are You in The Guaranteed Irish Club’ calling on its business members who are actively involved in the GAA to take part in a nationwide community reward programme. Photo: Sportsfile On Saturday evening last, John Small buckled up and braced himself … Read more
Dublin manager Ger Brennan during the Allianz Football League Division 1 defeat to Donegal at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile Dublin manager Ger Brennan said hid had paid the price for “a lack of energy and work-rate” in the first half after losing their opening National League tie against Donegal. In his … Read more
NFL Division One: Dublin 0-20 Donegal 1-20 The Ger Brennan Dublin era has begun in a sort of whirlwind fashion. Those being the conditions and the nature of the game in Croke Park on Saturday evening, making it hard to gauge just how good Donegal were when only softly blowing them away in the end. … Read more