Youngsters get kick out of Gaelic football.(News)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: December 17, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: By LUCY LYNCH lucy.lynch@mrn.co.uk

IRISH-BORN Sky Blues player Michael Doyle helped launch a drive to get Coventry pupils playing Gaelic football.

Coaching schemes in the sport are being run at more than a dozen schools in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Mr Doyle was guest of honour at the launch at St Anne's RC Primary School in Chace Avenue, which was organised by the East Midlands Schools Gaelic Athletics Association (EMSGAA).

The ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Youngsters get kick out of Gaelic football.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) ; Byline: By LUCY LYNCH lucy.lynch@mrn.co.uk IRISH-BORN Sky Blues player Michael Doyle helped launch a drive to get Coventry pupils playing Gaelic football. Coaching schemes in the sport are being run at more than a dozen schools in Coventry and Warwickshire. Mr Doyle was guest of honour at the
The Life Mag: Gaelic Football - The game that's winning friends.(Features)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England) ; Byline: AIDAN BEGLEY THINK of Irish imports and what springs to mind? Guinness, U2, Father Ted? One image which probably doesn't is a sport which is growing rapidly here in Birmingham. It combines the handling skills of netball and basketball, the aggression of rugby and the passion of soccer, and
AFL: Kennelly to make Gaelic football return - but not in 2009
AAP Sports News (Australia) ; AFL: Kennelly to make Gaelic football return - but not in 2009 By Laine Clark BRISBANE, April 4 AAP - Irish defender Tadhg Kennelly has confirmed he will leave Sydney and return to Gaelic football - but not in 2009. Kennelly, 27, today refuted an Irish newspaper report that he would quit the AFL
THE LIAM HAYES COLUMN: GAELIC FOOTBALL AIN'T BROKE, SO DON'T FIX IT
Irish Voice ; Irish Voice 04-29-1997 THE LIAM HAYES COLUMN: GAELIC FOOTBALL AIN'T BROKE, SO DON'T FIX IT THE new national television station, Telefis na Gaelige, has sought to gain a foothold in the country's front rooms by showing all the All-Ireland finals in football and hurling going back 25 years. It's a
Beach Gaelic Football Arrives in New York
Irish Voice ; Creaney, Ronan Irish Voice 05-25-2004 THE first ever Beach Gaelic Football Tournament will take place this Sunday, May 23, in Long Beach, New York. This tournament is the brain child of the Long Island Gaels, and as far as Paddy Lonergan, one of the tournament organizers, knows, his is the first
Elementary, my dear Sherlock; BLUE-EYED BOY PUTS GLAMOUR INTO GAELIC FOOTBALL.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England) ; Jason Sherlock is to gaelic football what Boyzone are to the music world. Attracting hordes of screaming young fans used to be the sole preserve of pop groups. Now Jason-mania is giving the Ronan Keatings of this world a run for their money - and it's ready to grip Dublin once more. The blue-eyed
THE LIAM HAYES COLUMN: GAELIC FOOTBALL'S HEADED FOR THE DUMPS
Irish Voice ; Liam Hayes Irish Voice 09-27-1994 THE LIAM HAYES COLUMN: GAELIC FOOTBALL'S HEADED FOR THE DUMPS. Who enjoyed last Sunday's All-Ireland football final between Dublin and Down better be prepared to buy the video of the game when it comes out. We better hold onto it and fondly watch it. It may be the
South City News: Having a ball Down Under; KINGS HEATH School taking Gaelic football to Australia.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England) ; Byline: By Tony Collins SPORTING pupils at a city school are going on a cultural mission Down Under - to teach Aussies the delights of Gaelic football. Bishop Challoner Catholic School, in Kings Heath, has been instrumental in introducing Gaelic football to Britain, with 60 primary and ten
GAELIC FOOTBALL GRABS HOLD; IRISH IMMIGRANTS SPUR RENEWED INTEREST IN THE SPORT.(Neighbors Syracuse)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) ; Byline: Alaina Potrikus Contributing writer An Irish tradition with a long history in Syracuse is returning to its former stomping grounds at Burnet Park. It's not rugby. It's not soccer. It's not even a mixture of the two. Gaelic football, which is played with a round ball slightly harder than a
Saving for a rainy day: Gaelic football club recruits so it can keep playing -- in any weather.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) ; Byline: Alex P. Kellogg May 13--The guys sloshing around behind Riley Middle School most Tuesday and Sunday evenings have no intention of canceling because of a little weather. They're playing Gaelic football, and the gray, rainy days you can expect each spring in Michigan are right up their alley.