Getting the kids to come out and follow Charlie

IT IS a little after 10pm on Wednesday night when Sligo captain Charlie – always Charles to his mum – Harrison walks through the doors of the Westwood House Hotel on the outskirts of Galway city.

Harrison, 27, is a full-time Games Promotion Officer with Sligo County Board and is spending a few days along with other coaches from the Connacht Council overseeing the top 50 young footballers in the province at NUIG’s sports grounds in Dangan.

The top 10 U15 players from each of the five counties are gone off to the cinema now, so he has an hour to talk sport.