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Following last week’s All-Ireland hurling final the main focus of attention is around the team that won, with a lot less thought to the vanquished.

Sport is about results.

Last weekend’s exploits at Croke Park were spellbinding and on occasions, out of this world, says Dr Ed Coughlan.

Salvador Dali once said, have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.

As has been their habit since the innocent summer of 2011, the Mayo football team hasn’t been short of takers lining up to bury and praise them in recent days.

The Leinster final proved another mismatch in a football championship season that is yet to heat up, says Dr Ed Coughlan.

Soccer has embraced VAR and it has proved successful at the World Cup. Though it will take time for it to become a seamless part of the game, it must be seen as a positive development for the sport, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

The county that adapts to the new format quickest will be the county likely to make the biggest strides earliest, writes Dr Ed Coughlan

My week unfolds like most others in that it follows a routine of sorts, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

Every so often a paper emerges in sport science or coaching science that encourages academics and practitioners to stop and think, writes Dr Ed Coughlan

AS a Mayo fan, Sunday was incredibly difficult to watch, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

People talk about player burnout but little is ever done to address the growing strain on players’ time, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

What a year for Mayo football. Once again, the country has been taken on a rollercoaster ride of emotions with the men from the west, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

At six-foot-two and well over 80Kgs, with a birthday in January and older siblings who play football as well, Kerry minor footballer David Clifford is your typical easy spot for future success, writes Dr Ed Coughlan

Conor McGregor’s intense exploration to find the limits of his ability have told him one thing – if you’re prepared to continually ask the hard questions of yourself, you will find a way, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

Jordan Spieth is not your traditional game-changer, but what he’s doing may turn out to be the saviour of golf, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

There is so much to admire about Roger Federer, almost too much, only for the fact that he appears genuine in everything we see through his media commitments and conduct on court, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

The recent furore caused by John McEnroe’s comments about Serena Williams was as much down to a slow news day as anything else, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

Al Pacino’s “Inches” speech in Any Given Sunday may make the hairs stand on the back of your neck, says Dr Ed Coughlan. But does it work? Consistently? And if so, for how long? Or is it just for effect?

Within every drill is a game trying to shine through, writes Dr Ed Coughlan

What we see is what they got. Rarely, if ever, will an athlete do something they haven’t been coached to do or practised at length before the ball is thrown in. 

Behind the apparently effortless grace of a Roger Federer forehand or the controlled ferocity of a Rory McIlroy drive is a history of practise, writes Dr Ed Coughlan. 

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Growing up in a golf-mad house, where at one point, all five kids had joined the local golf club along with our parents, it was always about swinging easy and not over-thinking it. 

The Dublin players are living, breathing examples of what any player can become when trained and coached by an informed, up-to-date commander-in-chief, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

This Mayo team have learned one critical thing that separates them from before and that is the ability to win ugly, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

There’s a reason Cork is the country’s winningest sporting county. Superior genes? Unlikely. Superior belief?

Sport is the greatest platform for making excuses to deflect attention from failings in preparation.

Many of the world’s leading sports scientists gathered in Montreal to debate, amongst other things, a peculiar GAA phenomenon — the relative age effect, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

Dublin will next season play their first provincial senior football championship game outside Croke Park in 10 years.