THE Fermanagh footballer who was left in a coma for five weeks this summer has criticised the GAA for their relaxed attitude towards violence on the pitch.

IT’S time to bury the memory of the 2011 villains. The Sepp Blatters and the Joe Paternos who use and abuse sport to massage their own medieval egos.

A Fermanagh footballer who suffered severe injuries in an off-the-ball incident in the US has returned home.

THE Fermanagh footballer who was left in a coma after an incident on a GAA field in San Francisco has admitted it’s a “miracle” he’s alive.

FERMANAGH’S Mark McGovern has defied the odds by walking just weeks after awakening from a coma.

WITNESSES to an incident which left a promising Irish GAA player fighting for his life in the US have told police the alleged attacker said “you won’t get up from that” as the victim lay on the ground.

San Francisco police are said to be investing the incident last Saturday which left Fermanagh Gaelic footballer Mark McGovern in a coma.

GAA president Christy Cooney has refuted suggestions that violence towards match officials is on the increase after a weekend that was blighted by a pair of unsavoury incidents in both the male and female codes.

A young Gaelic footballer has been hospitalised in San Francisco and is reportedly 'in a critical condition' following an incident in a club match last Saturday.