Columns - Irish Examiner

Paul Rouse

GAA is a connection to home that spans several centuries

Patrick Kavanagh only wrote a little about Gaelic football, but what he wrote was wonderful. He understood its place in rural Ireland and his observations on the language of the game and its rhythms were perfectly judged.

Fri, 12 Aug, 2016

Remembering Martin Sheridan - The greatest athlete of his generation

It’s Swinford Railway Station on Friday, 31 July 1908. 

Fri, 05 Aug, 2016

The stock of club players tumbles to an all-time low

It is one of the great axiomatic principles of the GAA that the club is the bedrock of the Association. This is repeated time and again and is rooted in the reality of the lives of people all across Ireland.

Sat, 30 Jul, 2016

Rule change should be embraced, not feared

The history of Gaelic football is littered with disputes, controversies, and occasional pronouncements that its extinction was both imminent and welcome, writes Paul Rouse

Fri, 22 Jul, 2016

Fionnuala McCormack right to highlight fraud of ‘country-hopping’ but we are all complicit

The best thing about Fionnuala McCormack’s glorious denunciation of the sham that is international sport is that this is a fraud in which so many are complicit, writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 15 Jul, 2016

Perfecting Park life in New York

The white man in the suit was sweating.

Fri, 08 Jul, 2016

This is what it's like to see a game of baseball at Fenway Park

It’s not easy to eat your way through a baseball match.

Fri, 01 Jul, 2016

USGA penalty pantomime a throwback 130 years

Fri, 24 Jun, 2016

€30m for redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaíomh is money badly spent

The €30m pledged by the Government in support of the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaíomh is money badly spent. To understand why this is the case, take even a cursory look at the recent results of a survey of sports participation in Ireland.

Fri, 17 Jun, 2016

The history of the split that will see two Irish teams at #Euro2016

The fact that two teams from Ireland will compete at Euro 2016 in France this month is a legacy of the divided politics of Ireland, writes Paul Rouse

Fri, 10 Jun, 2016