Is football ungovernable at the highest level?

The All-Ireland football final, eh? Gripping and competitive and compelling and pulsating and … Stop.

Mon, 03 Oct, 2016 - 01:00

Michael Moynihan is an associate editor and columnist with the Irish Examiner. He is also a best-selling author and documentary maker.

Spiteful and peevish, unedifying and niggly: nasty and brutish, and not even that short.

The focus on former Dublin players talking about Lee Keegan and Diarmuid Connolly last week served as a distraction from the harder question about Gaelic football: is it now ungovernable at the highest level?

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