Columns - Irish Examiner

John Fogarty

More to matching Cats than just muscle

This is Kilkenny. Kilkenny win things. Kilkenny lift heavier weights and hit harder than any other team. Kilkenny are smart. Be like Kilkenny.

Tue, 09 Feb, 2016

Doctors should automatically err on side of caution and remove players with suspected concussion

A recent survey of NFL players found an alarming number of them don’t trust their team doctors.

Tue, 02 Feb, 2016

Mayo's Seamus O’Shea ready for responsibility

The player stand-off which ousted the management team means that Mayo’s footballers will be under even more scrutiny in 2016. It’s a price that Seamus O’Shea and his colleagues are willing to accept

Fri, 29 Jan, 2016

Beware, the National League is an unreliable barometer

As has happened in so many Mays before, the same will happen this May: the GAA will be criticised for not organising a grand game to launch the football championship in style. 

Tue, 26 Jan, 2016

GAA drugs record can never be too clean

The GPA continue to get it in the neck from some quarters but it can never be said their communication channels with their members are poor.

Tue, 19 Jan, 2016

Tír Chonaill Gaels v Clonmel Commercials - AIB GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Club Championship Quarter-Final

Time for GAA to revalue loyalty

Patrons. What a pseudo-whimsical word for spectators. In the world of sport, few others than the good folk at Augusta National every April and the GAA refer to theirs as such.

Tue, 12 Jan, 2016

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

Mayo 4 Intrigue - What does this season hold for GAA's kings of heartache?

A REQUEST to Mayo supporters. No more “Mayo 4 Sam”. No more public displays of affection. We get that your longing for an All-Ireland is stronger than most if not everyone else. 

Wed, 06 Jan, 2016

Our national anthem needs full attention

Support for Wexford’s footballers wasn’t the only thing lacking in Enniscorthy on Sunday. Match programmes were nowhere to be seen, much like the main thoroughfare underneath the stand, which was submerged in flood water.

Tue, 05 Jan, 2016

The ten commandments of a GAA journalist

Thou shall take the Lord’s name in vain

Mon, 28 Dec, 2015

Countdown to the GAA's next TV rights deal has already started

There is another year remaining on the majority of the GAA’s media rights packages but the countdown to the next set of agreements, shaping up to be the most lucrative yet, has already begun.

Tue, 22 Dec, 2015