Paul Rouse: I spent 12 tough, enjoyable years coaching an under age GAA team. This is what I've learned

This is not a fairy story or an advertisement paid for by one of the GAA’s sponsors, shot in soft-focus and bathed in ambient music. So a bit of reality..

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The training sessions were long at the beginning – but the years now feel very short.

Last October I finished training the St. Oliver Plunkett’s Eoghan Ruadh minor girls Gaelic football team on the northside of Dublin city.