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With application came progress, and the opportunity to represent Mid-Tipperary

Divisional Teams and County Tipperary Underage Teams, and through these
experiences I came to be coached by Paudie Butler, who would go on to become

GAA National Hurling Director and a key developer and deliverer of Coach

Education in Gaelic games (Photo 1.4).

Photo 1.4 Tipperary U-14’s 1990 with Paudie Butler Coach, middle row right

Moving our family home, I joined the ‘Drom and Inch’ Club after the Under-16 age
grade, and while finding myself in a new community was difficult, again being part

of the GAA Club was the source of a new sense of belonging, and begun a new

chapter in the pursuit of my passion, not only as a player, but a few short years later
as a coach of the Drom and Inch U-10’s, along with my mother, Ella D’Arcy. (Fig

1.5).

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