The death has occurred of former Dublin footballer and Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s 2016 All-Ireland senior club football winning captain Darragh Nelson.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old passed away on Wednesday. He was diagnosed with sarcoma cancer (extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma) four years ago and in November 2024 a scan found tumour growth in his lung, hip and pancreas.<\/p>\n
Nelson underwent both chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as an operation.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Irish Independent last November, he revealed he was faced with the prospect of losing his arm during surgery to remove a tumour. \u201cI just said, \u2018I’ve had my day. I don’t care if you have to take the arm. I just want this cancer out of me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Nelson lifted the Andy Merrigan Cup after an Andy McEntee-managed Boden side beat Castlebar Mitchels eight years ago. He was a member of the Dublin All-Ireland SFC winning panels in 2011 and \u201813 before finishing up at the end of the \u201814 season. Along the way, he also won a couple of Leinster medals and a Division 1 title in 2013.<\/p>\n
He won three Dublin and two Leinster SFCs with Boden and was part of the DIT team that won the freshers title in 2010.<\/p>\n
Nelson is survived by his wife Lauren and daughters Molly and Sophie, his parents Susan and John and sisters Emma and Kate.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, former Roscommon footballer Frankie Dolan has pulled out of the race to become the next Longford senior manager.<\/p>\n
Dolan, who assisted Ois\u00edn McConville this past season as Wicklow claimed the Tailteann Cup and has managed Abbeylara, confirmed he was no longer in the running to succeed Mike Solan, who has since taken up the Offaly position.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter careful consideration, I spoke with the Chairman of Longford County Board (Derek Fahy) earlier this week and have decided that I won\u2019t be going forward for the role,\u201d Dolan said on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, a new policy document on colour blindness will be presented to Central Council next month.<\/p>\n
A number of bodies as well as the GAA\u2019s commercial department are finalising a paper that will take into consideration patrons and viewers who have the condition.<\/p>\n
The GAA\u2019s current colour blindness policy only applies to the players in the teams involved. The team have the option to wear their alternative jersey providing they don\u2019t clash.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Irish Examiner in July, the GAA\u2019s national games administration manager Bernard Smith said: \u201cThe GAA are currently working on a new policy around jersey clashes in advance of the 2027 season, which will consider teams wearing red and green, or variants of them, a clash due to colour blindness, similar to other sports, and where possible will aim to avoid them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meetings of the likes of Cork v Kerry and Cork v Limerick may see one of the teams change to their second jersey to accommodate colour blindness spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death has occurred of former Dublin footballer and Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s 2016 All-Ireland senior club football winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,1128,42,43,850,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-649097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}