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The Croke Park/LGFA Player of the Month award for November 2023

S Fogarty Forum: Páirc Uí Chaoimh strife haunts Cork

Cork GAA do a decent job of acting like a highly functional organisation but so many of their waking hours are occupied with this huge debt.

Tue, 12 Dec, 2023

Kilkenny v Limerick - Allianz Hurling League Final

S John Fogarty: Hurling league change will keep teams honest

It's ironic that Limerick’s indifferent attitude to the league is partly why the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) have moved like they have.

Tue, 28 Nov, 2023

Trillick v Errigal Ciaran - Tyrone County Senior Club Football Championship Final

S John Fogarty: Mickey Harte may be damned but not yet doomed

The concern some former players have about Derry’s style under Harte seems laboured.

Tue, 21 Nov, 2023

Ballina Stephenites v Breaffy - Mayo County Senior Club Football Championship Final

S John Fogarty: Can Jarlath Burns be football's saviour? Because someone needs to...

The ghastly fare produced in Mayo's (and other) county final on Sunday are further indicators of a game gone wrong.

Tue, 31 Oct, 2023

Mickey Harte 18/6/2023

S John Fogarty: Provincial draw causing tremors

Divisions create derision in Kerry and referee protection still falling short

Tue, 24 Oct, 2023

Dublin v Galway - EirGrid GAA All-Ireland Under 20 Football Championship Final

S John Fogarty on GAA: Referee Paul Faloon's fate casts shadow over Down

In an attempt to pull the curtain across an incredibly sorry scene, they only served to trip on it and rip it.

Tue, 17 Oct, 2023

Clare v Meath - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 1

S John Fogarty: Answer to football's ills may lie off the field

The GAA could do, has done, worse than embrace bonus points. Twenty years in existence in the Rugby World Cup, it has decided finishing places on two occasions

Tue, 10 Oct, 2023

Dublin v Kerry - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final

S John Fogarty: Five sirens for Gaelic football

Thought-provoking data on inter-county Gaelic football presented by Gaelic Stats illustrates the GAA can’t just sit on their hands as the game as a spectacle deteriorates

Tue, 03 Oct, 2023

Seamus Moynihan is mobbed by fans 26/9/2004

S John Fogarty: Split season yet to hit the sweet spot

Just like it was during the pandemic in 2020, September has been spent by many being nostalgic about the biggest days in the GAA calendar

Tue, 26 Sep, 2023

John Fogarty: Cliffords' never-ending football story

S John Fogarty: Cliffords' never-ending football story

In Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday, David and Paudie's elation at assisting Fossa advance to within 60 minutes of senior football was unbridled and unmasking.

Tue, 12 Sep, 2023