Noel Connors going in the right direction

It’s Semple Stadium for Noel Connors on Sunday but it will be Italy and Sweden for him later this month.

Before you think he’s heading to France for Ireland’s Euro 2016 campaign, he explains he will be delivering papers at a leading conference on organisation studies in the aforementioned countries.

Studying for a PhD in “self identified leaders and their autodidact practices”, his thesis centres on club leadership in the GAA.