Columns - Irish Examiner

Mike Quirke

How can you buy into a Cork football culture if there isn’t one?

I walked out of Fitzgerald Stadium after watching Kerry trounce Cork not knowing what to think.

Tue, 04 Jul, 2017

Jim Gavin’s first proper gaffe comes after mesmeric win

Gavin stood up for Diarmuid Connolly but it was the player’s own actions which got him suspended, writes Mike Quirke.

Tue, 27 Jun, 2017

Football is evolving - not dying

Novelist Mark Twain had set off on a speaking tour around the world back in the 1890s to raise money to cover a raft of debt he had built up in his native United States.

Tue, 20 Jun, 2017

Let the young lads off... they’ll find their way back

It’s that time of year again. College exams are over. The provincial championships are well underway, and that means the GAA clubs of Ireland being decimated by America.

Tue, 13 Jun, 2017

Players in need of education, not condemnation, in drug debate

A proper educational process could have spared Brendan O’Sullivan the reputational damage he and his family have endured for nothing more than a poorly thought out mistake, writes Mike Quirke.

Tue, 06 Jun, 2017

Someone needs to join the dots in Cork or it’ll be a short summer

It seems like a lifetime ago Cork football was riding the crest of a wave after winning the All-Ireland title in 2010, followed up by five Munster U21 titles in the next seven years, writes Mike Quirke.

Tue, 30 May, 2017