Fogarty Forum: Allow joint captains to stay

There was little logic to the move to ban joint captains

Ballygunner’s Philip O’Mahony, left, and Barry Coughlan lift the cup after their All-Ireland Club SHC final win. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Tue, 15 Feb, 2022 - 07:26

John Fogarty is the Irish Examiner’s GAA correspondent, with unique insights into the action on the pitch and in the Gaelic games’ corridors of power.

As Saturday’s epic events in Croke Park become memories, the most vivid will obviously be the stunning interventions from Harry Ruddle and Jerome Johnston and the cups being held aloft.

If, as WLR’s Kieran O’Connor suggested during his commentary of the goal, Huddle’s No17 jersey will be framed and placed in Jack Meade’s pub, then you can be sure the photograph of joint captains Barry Coughlan and Philip Mahony together raising the Tommy Moore Cup will be proudly placed in the Ballygunner clubhouse.