Cuthbert: Secondary schools should be academies of the future

Former Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert has proposed an overhaul of the under-age coaching mechanisms in the GAA in which designated secondary schools would become inter-county academies.

The principal of Bishopstown primary school, Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh, is in the third year of a PhD study in UCC’s Department of Sports Studies and Physical Education under the supervision of Dr Fiona Chambers.

Last night he delivered an address – Modelling Best Practices in Talent Academies – to the GAA coaching conference in Croke Park, which was partly related to his study on how GAA academies support the holistic development of elite youth Gaelic footballers and hurlers.