What about the poor créatúrs?

Liam Moggan retired last month from his position with Coaching Ireland. Known as the ‘coach’s coach’, he worked with everyone from Billy Walsh to Brian Kerr to Éamonn Fitzmaurice. But he believes Ireland’s focus on elite sport at the expense of physical education means a generation of kids have been lost

While tutoring everyone from Billy Walsh and Brian Kerr to badminton coaches you’ve never heard of, Liam Moggan in his time with Coaching Ireland would invariably ask them to reflect on a poem penned over a century ago.

As they were all operating in the field of sport, they were naturally striving for success. But what was success?