 Canavan is from Glencull , near Ballygawley , County Tyrone and was the tenth of eleven children . His older brother , Pascal , played with him on the Tyrone panel for most of the 1990s . He is married to Finola ( sister of former Tyrone team @-@ mate Ronan McGarrity ) , and has four children , Aine , Claire , Darragh and Ruairi , and has been a Physical Education teacher in Holy Trinity College , Cookstown , throughout most of his career ( Gaelic games are amateur sports ) . While there , he taught Eoin Mulligan his point @-@ taking technique , and the pair have been known in the media as ' master and student ' ever since , particularly by television commentators . 
