One of my 2nd years bounces into tutor time this morning, “Sir I played table tennis with a princess yesterday”. I flat out ignored him thinking he was winding me up, he comes back up about 2 minutes later with a video on his iPad of him having a match against Kate Middleton 😂
In Beaumont today having treatment on (thankfully) benign brain tumours but there’s 4 other cancer patients in the ward with me. All women. Fucking horrendous to see them in so much pain. Good news is they’re all on the mend and we’re having tea
Absolutely delighted to be named Leinster Schools U15 Girls Head Coach for the Interpro Tournament and to work alongside
@CiaranOBrien18
Look forward to building on the incredible work both
@scottgaynor1
and Rob Ellison have done over the years 🔵⚪️
@LeinsterGirls
@faischools
GET IN THERE!!!🏆🏆🏆
The most emotional day of football that I’ve ever been involved in. Been with the lads since U10s and today I got to watch them become champions of Ireland. Most happy for
@blueray1978
who has given those lads nothing short of everything👏🏻
So proud of Ella making her
@RoversWomen
senior debut today, absolutely so well deserved👏🏻 Extra privilege for me today getting to commentate on the game as she stepped onto the pitch for the first time ☘️ big thanks to
@DavidHanly4
for looking after me so well 🎙️
Absolutely delighted to get this in the mail today. So grateful towards everyone for helping me get to this point. Huge thank you to
@pmlegend57
for all of the honest and constructive feedback and to
@blueray1978
and Dave Gilmore from my team for all of the support and guidance⚽️
Emotionally wrecked after saying goodbye to these lads today after 6 years of coaching them. I genuinely love every single one of them. It has been an absolute pleasure coaching them and coaching with Ray and Dave. They have given me way more than I have given them⚽️💚
Some feeling getting this in the mail today. Thanks to
@jjjcarey
for starting me out on my coaching journey all those years ago. Massive thanks to
@blueray1978
@wayne_ashbrook
@SparkyC91
and everyone
@peamountutd
for their guidance and support so far. Looking forward to more👍🏻⚽️
An absolute pleasure to share my story on my coaching journey so far and how we approach development with the WU17s
@SRFCAcademy
Thanks to Chris for being so professional and easy to talk to during the interview, loved talking football with her⚽️☘️💚
Thank you to
@Keithc786
the Under 17s Women’s Head Coach
@SRFCAcademy
and
@ShamrockRovers
for their time
☘️
“If we're just teaching these kids football, we’re wasting their time. It's person first, player second.”
First class honours in my inspections from school placement which now means I’ll receive a first class honours masters degree in education overall👑 happy bleeding days boys and girls
Officially accepted a job offer this week and have since got 3 more offers having spent the whole summer getting nothing but rejection, it’s either a feast or a famine, if you’re still looking keep going
I met
@AshEConway3
years ago now on the UEFA C, we were lucky to go through our B licence together too. Now she’s working full time in football and in my school telling young boys and girls how they can do the same. Absolutely brilliant👏🏻🇮🇪⚽️
☘️A night with our unbelievable staff and players in the WU17 group
@SRFCAcademy
☘️
Unbelievably proud reading this and reflecting on all of the hard work that gets put in on a daily basis.
Most importantly, glad I get to do it with one of my best mates
@TgleesonTg
👊🏽☘️⚽️
Just the 9 Rovers players receiving their Ireland U17s caps yesterday🇮🇪
Incredible work from all of the players and staff
@SRFCAcademy
These girls and their teammates are relentless in improving and working every week, great to be apart of☘️
🇮🇪 9 of our players were presented with their Ireland WU17 caps at an event on Friday evening
Congratulations to Laura Fanning, Lauryn McCabe, Amy Tierney, Ella Kelly, Katie O’Reilly, Clodagh Daly, Anna Butler, Sorcha Melia & Della Cowper-Gray (Della absent from first photo) ☘️
Delighted for
@wayne_ashbrook
@BarryScullion
and
@jjjcarey
on finally getting their hands on the league title today. A privilege to watch them at work over the last few months. Brilliant to see 3 of our u17s involved today too👏🏻☘️⚽️
🇮🇪 🛫 🏴
Safe trip to our WU17s who are on their way to Scotland to play two high level friendlies ⚽️
🆚 Celtic WU18s
📅 Today
📍 Glasgow
🆚 Hearts WU18s
📅 Tomorrow
📍 Edinburgh
Best of luck to the squad ☘️
Reps, reps & more reps. Anna a great example of the most important thing in youth development: opportunities to work on consistent actions. She’s been in this position so many times this season, as cool as anything☘️🇮🇪👏🏻
🇮🇪 Anna Butler’s goal that opened the scoring for Ireland U17s in their 5-2 win over Portugal earlier today
Anna, Laura Fanning and Ella Kelly all started with Ella captaining the side in Lisbon 🇵🇹
Well done to all involved 👏🏻
A year to the day that I was diagnosed with NF2 and since then I’ve gotten my FAI D License, got my Masters Degree in Education, Spoke at Peamount United’s annual coaching conference and been on every session I was invited to. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it NF2😁🍻
🇮🇪 Anna Butler, Ella Kelly & Laura Fanning pictured after today’s friendly between Ireland WU17s and Northern Ireland in Belfast
The Girls In Green ran out 3-1 winners with Ella captaining the side on the day ☘️
Well done, girls 👏🏻
Not one for sappy tweets or anything but my Ma is the most selfless person on the entire planet. She spent every single weekend since I was a kid visiting my granda, making sure he’s alright, she just got his will money a few days ago and she’s done nothing but give it away
Got my first ever proper pay check from the school I work in this week. My ma had previously been paying my college fees. Logged straight on and paid them all off, handed her the receipt, she cried her eyes out. That’s what it’s all about
Hand on heart the best person you could ever come across; typifies the best possible teammate you could be. Good luck Beano, everyone’s with you and committed to helping in your recovery☘️💚
Best wishes to Kaytlin Conroy from our WU17 squad who is set to undergo surgery this weekend on a serious ankle injury that will rule her out of action for a significant period of time.
Everyone at the Club wishes Kaytlin all the best with the surgery & her recovery 💚
One of my 3rd years has just sent me this after an incident in class the other day. She’s 15 years old. Emailing her teacher on a Friday night on behalf of the whole class. Absolutely made my weekend. Kids are great
🇮🇪 Mia Murtagh, Lara Dallaghan, Keelin Comiskey, Sophie Byrne, Ciara Milton & Kaitlyn Delahunty pictured after today’s 1-0 win over Northern Ireland ☘️
Mia Murtagh (17) captained the side in Athlone, while also being named Player of the Match & Irish Player of the Tournament 👏🏻
Brilliant day yesterday as our final assessment took place in Leixlip! Assessment process has been great, a lot of talent in Leinster🔵⚪️
@CiaranOBrien18
Our final Leinster Girls assessment took place today in Leixlip United!🔵⚪️ Huge well done and thank you to players who were top class in their football and attitude⚽️. All Leinster staff massively grateful for the use of the brilliant facilities
@LeixlipUnited
@faischools
Great battle up in Donegal yesterday.
Different types of games give different types of challenges and the girls dealt with it brilliantly☘️
Every day is a school day 📝
Two school teams with games this upcoming week. One slot for a training session today. On my own, 20 players, no problem. 10 v 10 game, 40 minutes. Coach one team for 20 minutes and deliver coaching points, small break, coach other team for 20 minutes.
Fantastic start to the Leinster programme today! Over 130 players out enjoying football in the unbelievable facilities at Ferrycarrig Park. Great standard on show; a promising few months ahead⚪️🔵
@WexfordFCWomen
All set to go here in the fantastic facilities of Ferrycarrig Park for the beginning of the Leinster programme 2024! Looking forward to working with this years group of players!
@WexfordFC
@faischools
#Leinster
#Faischools
A great day of football as another Leinster assessment took place🔵⚪️ Huge thank you to players today who were excellent in attitude as well as the football; leaving the fantastic facilities of
@PatsAfc
the way they found it. Huge thank you to St Pats for hosting us too⚽️
🇮🇪 Laura Fanning, Kaitlyn Delahunty, Ella Kelly & Anna Butler all featured for Ireland U16s in a 3-1 defeat to Portugal in the first game of the UEFA Development Tournament earlier today
🇦🇹 Next up for the Girls In Green is a clash with Austria on Saturday morning
My ma is an absolute hero. Came up with the idea of putting collection boxes in 2 Dublin pubs to help fund a cure for NF2 (which I have), and the two boxes have come back with €500!! That’s a massive amount of money. Legend
Don’t think many of Katie’s teammates cared too much about kicking a rubber ball around tonight; it was all about Katie. As it should be. Best of luck kid, we’re with you every step of the way💚☘️
Members of our WU17 & WU19 squads presented Katie Sherlock with a signed jersey & gifts at Roadstone this evening
Katie undergoes surgery tomorrow after sustaining an ACL injury earlier this year
Everyone at the Club wishes Katie all the best with the surgery & her recovery 💚
4 players who made their WU17 league debuts in this picture on top of their Ireland appearance this weekend, a great weekend in their development journey👊🏽☘️
🇮🇪 Sophie Byrne (17), Keelin Comiskey (3), Kaitlyn Delahunty (4) & Mia Murtagh (14) from our WU17s pictured after today’s friendly between Ireland Schools U15s v Northern Ireland ☘️
Ciara Milton (18) & Lara Dallaghan (6) from our U14 Development Squad also featured in Belfast ☘️
A busy day of games across all age groups today. Starting with our U15 group playing a touring team from
@peamountutd
All of our age groups will hold a 1 min applause before games to remember former scholar Cody Fisher
Coaching isn’t always sunshine and rainbows but this weekend was one of the good ones. Very proud of these 3, much more to come as the season progresses☘️⚽️
Fresh from their opening day success with our U17s on Saturday, Katie O’Reilly, Laura Fanning & Ella Kelly all featured for the first team in this morning’s pre-season friendly at Roadstone ☘️
Done my whole sleeve within the space of 2 months, last session was on this bad boy, was so sick of the pain but so worth it, delighted it’s all finally healed
SQUAD LIST |
#IRLWU17
James Scott names his squad ahead of two International Friendlies in preparation for the UEFA European Championship qualifiers ☘️
Jan 19 | vs 🇰🇷
Jan 24 | vs 🇵🇹
#COYGIG
I genuinely felt the same emotions getting fitted with a hearing aid for the first time. It’s amazing. Walked through liffey valley not realising how much I had been missing. Best of luck little man
@Oliver__Bond
The easiest draw possible. Anyone wanting Madrid etc are fools. As we proved last year you don’t necessarily have to beat the best to go all the way, would much rather the easiest possible route to the final
Ireland U16’s are off to Scotland for a double header
International Friendlies
Tuesday, November 14 | Scotland WU16 v Ireland WU16, Oriam, Edinburgh, KO 14:30
Thursday, November 16 | Scotland WU16 v Ireland WU16, Oriam, Edinburgh, KO 14:30