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A trailblazer throughout his GAA career, in 1993 Eamonn Coleman became the first manager to lead Derry to All-Ireland success, a feat that remains his alone. Having taken over as manager in 1990, in 1992 he brought the county only its second National League title. At just 14 he became the youngest-ever player to win a senior club championship medal with his home team, Ballymaguigan; he was a member of Derry’s first All-Ireland-winning minors in 1965 and All-Ireland U21 champions of 1968. He repeated his minor success as a manager, winning the All-Ireland in 1983. He died in June 2007 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Maria McCourt is Eamonn Coleman’s niece and goddaughter. A former journalist and editor, she has worked as a news and sports reporter for publications in Ireland, Australia and the US. Maria started her career as a trainee journalist with the Belfast Media Group and went on to become editor of two of its newspapers, the North Belfast News and South Belfast News. The start-up editor of the national daily, Daily Ireland, in the late 2000s she led editorial teams in Cavan and Monaghan, establishing two weekly papers in the counties. She has also worked for the Irish Echo newspaper in Sydney and as a contributor for Irish Echo in New York.