Columns - Irish Examiner

John Fogarty

A tiered championship remains a viable option

If you turned on the heat in your home last Thursday evening it may have had as much to do with the football championship draw you were watching as the drop in temperature.

Tue, 24 Oct, 2017

If Colm Cooper can’t get away with it, nobody can

There’s not much you could begrudge Colm Cooper. Not much at all. He is a man who transcended the game he mastered. The reasonable fortune he has accrued from the fame has been most deserving. A lot of what he will accrue in the future on the back of his name will be just as merited, writes John Fogarty.

Tue, 17 Oct, 2017

Taking shot in the dark

To paraphrase one of their associate sponsors, the GAA have claimed they backed brave on Saturday.

Tue, 03 Oct, 2017

More hurling action should be the target

Four days out from a hurling-dominated Special Congress and what will be decided for next year’s senior championship is anyone’s guess, writes John Fogarty.

Tue, 26 Sep, 2017

GAA losing war on cynicism

Dublin win not only because they are the best but because they are the boldest too, writes John Fogarty.

Tue, 19 Sep, 2017

Kerry v Mayo - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final Replay

Five don’ts for Mayo pundits ahead of All-Ireland final

Mayo in an All-Ireland final means one thing to most Mayo people and something extra to others — money.

Tue, 12 Sep, 2017

Burke shines a spotlight on mental health issues

As David Burke’s acceptance speech extended on Sunday, Peter Canavan’s victorious address 14 years previous came to mind. “I’m not finished yet,” the Tyrone great told the masses in front of him. “It took me a long time to get here.”

Tue, 05 Sep, 2017

Dublin v Tyrone - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final

Dublin are becoming the ultimate final side

COMING out of Croke Park on Sunday, a former Mayo manager tried to counter what he had just seen by theorising that teams who win All-Ireland semi-finals by large margins go on to lose finals while those who receive sterner tests are better placed to claim silverware.

Tue, 29 Aug, 2017

Fitzmaurice must now be thinking a step ahead

Safe to say, this is not 2014 all over again. Kerry may indeed win the replay as they did back then. They surely will be all the better for a battle of such magnitude two days ago but they will have to bring something different if they are to do so.

Tue, 22 Aug, 2017

Austin Gleeson may benefit from August clemency

In 2011, for the second year in a row, former inter-county referee and Irish Examiner columnist John Bannon put forward a motion to GAA Congress via his club Legan Sarsfields to take referees out of the process of issuing proposed retrospective suspensions, writes John Fogarty.

Tue, 15 Aug, 2017