Ger Brennan has left his teaching job to succeed the late Dave Billings as Gaelic Games executive at UCD.

Billings, who mentored Brennan in St. Vincent's and was a Dublin selector when the two-time All-Ireland winning centre back made his championship debut for the Blues in 2007, held the position for almost two decades until his sudden death last April.

It means the recently-retired Dublin star will be swapping the classroom in St. Kevin's, Ballygall Road for the Belfield campus, where another St. Vincent's and Dublin great, Brian Mullins, is Director of Sport.

"I want to do justice to the spirit and the work of Dave and the influence that he had on the college over 18 years," Brennan told the Irish Daily Star.

"He's someone I had the utmost respect for through out St. Vincent's connection and I'll never forget how he mentored me when I first came on the Dublin panel. I played my first game in 2006 and I was in and out of the training panel as well.

"I would have came more into the mix after that and he was always someone who gave me great advice and helped me along. He was always very good to me and having been at the receiving end of that kindness, what I'm basically trying to do now is build upon the legacy that he left behind him in UCD."

 

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