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25 Feb 2026

Stephen Rochford talks coaching, and much more, at Kildare GAA Workshop

Kildare GAA Coaching Education Workkshop Series, Part 2

Stephen Rochford talks coaching, and much more, at Kildare GAA Workshop

Former Mayo boss Stephen Rochford

Reporter:

Thomas Callaghan

25 Feb 2026 1:04 PM

Email:

tommy@leinsterleader.ie

Kildare GAA are holding a second workshop in their Coaching Education Series and invite all club coaches, from juvenile through to senior, to take part. It will be held on Friday March 6 at Cedral St Conleth's Park, Newbridge, and Saturday March 7, at Coneff Park, Clane GAA Headquarters.

This two day workshop delivers a high quality, practical agenda aimed at supporting coaches working across all levels of the club game in Kildare.
Friday Night: Coach Education & Performance Insights, Cedral St Conleth's 7.30 pm, will feature presentations from Neil Welsh Strength & Conditioning Coach, Kildare Senior Footballers; Paul Divilly Kildare GAA Talent Performance Lead (Tactical periodisation, planning your programme around the fixture calendar and integrating athletic development into in‑season training) and Brian Lacey Kildare All‑Star & former Kildare Minor, U20 and Senior coach and analyst (The role of performance analysis and statistics in the modern game)
This will be followed by a panel discussion on how performance data and statistics were used by Kildare's three county championship winning team campaigns, featuring: Ross Bell and Conor Ronan Joint Athy Senior Management; Jonathan Daniels, Sallins Senior Manager and David Conway Grangenolvin Senior Manager.
On Saturday morning the workshops covers: From Philosophy to Practice at  Clane GAA Club 11 am and features Stephen Rochford, former Mayo senior manager and All Ireland Club winning manager with Corofin and Stephen will deliver a practical and insightful session on: Designing and delivering coaching sessions that transfer to match day and Coaching with clarity, purpose and consistency. Stephen brings his experience from guiding Corofin to All Ireland Club success in 2015 and Mayo to two All Ireland Finals in 2016 and 2017, offering invaluable insight into coaching at the highest level.
This workshop is open to all club coaches, regardless of experience and forms part of Kildare GAA’s ongoing commitment to supporting coach development and pushing coaching standards across the county.
For more information, contact: communications.kildare@gaa.ie

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