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Administrators and Bainisteorí
As a fun exercise and in anticipation of this year’s All-Ireland football final, we challenged ourselves to come up with a fantasy UCD Medicine Gaelic football team comprising students, staff or alumni who have represented their county (or UCD) at underage, minor or senor level.

The Backroom Team (Roighnóirí)
Like any good GAA team, you need to start with officialdom and mobilise some serious operators – people who know politics and how to handle themselves. Our Chairman, Prof Brendan Drumm is UCD Professor of Paediatrics and together with Ard Stiúrthóir, Prof Micheál Peadar Ban Mac Aoidháin (UCD Medicine 1989, Medicine Dean and Head of School), they have assembled a formidable management team with 11 All Ireland connections to their name.

Na Bainisteoirí
Would be rock star bassist and Clanna Gael Fontenoy U9’s coach, Prof Walter Cullen is the principal reason this nonsense started, by throwing down the gauntlet to yours truly, Maor Uisce, Pól Ó hÉarcáin. A great nurturer of underage talent, the UCD Professor of Urban General Practice is expected to feature several current students within his first squad. Compensating for Walter’s relative inexperience at a senior management level, the Administrators have bolstered the Management Team with two giants of the game.

A member of the legendary Dublin team of the seventies, Dr Pat O’Neill (UCD Medicine 1974) won two All-Ireland Senior Football (1976, 1977) and two National Football League medals (1976, 1978). He ended a (relatively) long barren spell for the county by leading them to All-Ireland success in 1995. The Left-half back became a sports medicine and orthopaedic physician at Mater Private Hospital and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Dr Eamon O’Sullivan (UCD Medicine 1925) can most probably be described as the Grandfather of Kerry Football. He was responsible for the development of Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney and trained the senior football team from 1924 until 1964. He shares with Mick O’Dwyer, the distinction of having trained eight All-Ireland winning teams although Eamon’s success was achieved over a 38 year period (1924, 1926, 1937, 1946, 1953, 1955, 1959, and 1962). His team were also losing finalists in 1964. A ‘man before his time’, Dr O’Sullivan was a visionary in his preparation of teams alternating innovative exercise routines and skills tuition with rest and play to create ‘wholetime collective training.’ He specialised in psychiatry, introducing the concept of occupational therapy and was the Resident Medical Superintendent at St Finan’s Hospital in Killarney until his retirement in 1962.

Once we had a strong backroom team, we set to work inviting nominees from any era and gender. It turned out to be surprisingly easy to construct a first fifteen, but the fun started when we had to assign squad numbers and positions. Here is what we’ve come up with. Who did we miss?

Background Staff & Roighnóirí
Without doubt, perhaps the most impressive part of the UCD Medicine Harps would be its back room team of volunteers and support staff.

Maor Foirne
No one quite knows what the Maor Foirne do, but everyone knows that they are vital to the success of any team that has All-Ireland ambitions. They are the mystical runners who encroach with impunity on the playing area and get into Croke Park without requiring a ticket. If they are lucky, they get to stand on the back of the trailer at the home coming.
You’d have to have Dublin and Kerry represented amongst the Maor Foirne and our Athena SWAN objective requires that we’ve both male and female representatives. So we’ve gone with a combination of Medicine and Radiography in the form of Kerry GP, Dr Gary Stack (UCD Medicine 1994) alongside St Brigid’s, Dr Jonathan McNulty and Na Fianna’s Prof Louise Rainford, both radiographers.

Medical Staff / Na Doctúirí
You’d expect a Medical School to be able to turn out an impressive squad of team doctors so it is no surprise that we’ve been able to name several with significant intercounty medical team experience. In fact, these 6 Doctors have over 130 years of medical experience behind them and have helped the current and previous Dublin senior footballers to All-Ireland success. Our medical team comprises former and current Dublin Senior Football Doctors, Prof Gerry McElvaney (UCD Med 1982), Mr Kiaran O’Malley (UCD Med 1992), and Dr Diarmuid Smith (UCD Med 1994), former Offaly and Tipperary Hurling doctor, Dr Brendan Murphy (UCD Med 2008), and Dr Tadhg Crowley (UCD Med 1992) who has helped Kilkenny to between 9 – 10 All-Ireland titles. FAI Women’s International Doctor, Dr Maeve Doheny (UCD Med 2006 and current staff member) completed the medical team.

Strength & Conditioning
Our strength and conditioning team has collectively something close to 100 years of professional experience. From an anatomy perspective, it features Parnell GAA’s Conor Lyons, a man who makes regular trips to the Kingdom to gloat about Dublin’s success and Galway’s Dr Tom Flanagan, who has a European Championship Shield medal with Maastricht Gaels. With the increasing prevalence of anterior and median cruciate ligament injuries, we are pleased to have radiographer Shane Foley, a man who has played hurling with Kerry and football with Cork. Competing the S&C line up is physiologist Dr Stuart Bund, current mentor with Skerries Harps Senior Men’s team and physiotherapist, Muthu Thangaramanujam, UCD Medicine PhD student.

About UCD Medicine Harps
Throughout our School's history, we’ve a proud tradition of students, staff and alumni representing their clubs, county and university in Gaelic Games. So as a fun exercise as we approach the business end of this year’s All-Ireland Football Championships, we thought we’d try to put together a UCD Medicine dream team. Players – male or female - of any county in any era, who were students, staff or graduates of the School and who represented their county at underage, minor or senior level football for inclusion in our 30-person All Star squad. ... See MoreSee Less

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UCD School of Medicine

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