Early years Gaelic football: ‘Some senior coaches have no idea how to coach a four-year-old’

Michael Gerard Doherty recently released a coaching guide for early years Gaelic football games.

Michael Gerard Doherty trains super heroes like Spiderman and Batman at a GAA session.

Protect the dinosaur egg. Stare down a rival cowboy or cowgirl. Collect Sonic’s rings. Michael Gerard Doherty believes in bringing children through the gate of the GAA club and transporting them to another world. They can do anything. Everything.

This has always been his way. It is how he was reared. Before the coaches in West Belfast’s Pádraig, there was his father in the back garden.