Columns - Irish Examiner

John Fogarty

How the GAA's disciplinary system avoided controversy in 2016

It was the end of the world as we knew it. That’s what we were told, anyway. That the reprieve offered to Diarmuid Connolly by two of the three men sitting on the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) panel had taken a match to the GAA’s disciplinary system.

Tue, 10 Jan, 2017

‘Any day if I caught a few good balls and kicked a few good balls, that was success’

Mick O’Connell says the simple satisfaction of having “caught a few good balls and kicked a few good balls” is what remains with him most from his playing time with Kerry.

Thu, 05 Jan, 2017

2017 suggestions for GAA: From Harte to HawkEye, Cats to kittens

Our hopes for the 2017 GAA season? They read as follows...

Sat, 31 Dec, 2016

Cheap shots from Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes have harmed Mayo

Last Friday, The Irish Independent ran a blurb promoting their interview with Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes. Truth be told, the Mayo players knew this day was coming long before the newspaper did.

Tue, 20 Dec, 2016

GAA's media rights announcement was protectionism, not promotion

Thanks to events across the Atlantic this autumn, “normalising” will go down as one of the words of the year. The man who promoted it, New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick, deserves praise for providing an essential tool in describing the GUBU US Presidential election.

Tue, 13 Dec, 2016

Will dual counties be the next to die in GAA’s new realities?

For the record, it wasn’t Podge Collins’ decision last month to concentrate on inter-county hurling that marked the end of the dual dodo. When the bionic Aidan Walsh opted for the hurlers in 2015, it confirmed this art of juggling had seen its day. When someone as insanely athletic as Walsh could no longer do it, nobody could.

Tue, 06 Dec, 2016