John Fogarty
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Irish Examiner GAA correspondent. Liverpool FC supporter. Enjoy spoiling good walks. Not the CCR JF. Personal views aired here, not the newspaper's.
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Why did the GPA give DJ Carey €30,000? #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
John Fogarty: Why did GPA give DJ Carey €30,000?
Oversight has been a major stumbling block in the GAA-GPA funding negotiations. The DJ Carey donation suggests they have cause to insist on more regulation.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Why did the GPA give DJ Carey €30,000? #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Ground rules needs to be set for AFL poachers. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
John Fogarty: Ground rules need to be set for AFL poachers
It should be regulated how and where players can be contacted, and it should be insisted the AFL clubs work with the GAA units who invested in these footballers.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ground rules needs to be set for AFL poachers. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Outside manager is back in #GAA crosshairs. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Outside manager is back in #GAA crosshairs. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Interview with Tipperary’s Robert Doyle. Robert was promoting a fundraiser in Cashel on October 26 for a host of charities including The Dillon Quirke Foundation. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
Tipp's breakthrough boy Doyle just playing it whatever way it comes
When Robert Doyle thinks of the players who have come and gone without walking up the steps of the Hogan Stand, he knows he is fortunate.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Interview with Tipperary’s Robert Doyle. Robert was promoting a fundraiser in Cashel on October 26 for a host of charities including The Dillon Quirke Foundation. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
#GAA addled by streams of risky: Croke Park to clampdown on unregulated streaming market at county level. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: GAA struggling to find right balance when it comes to streaming games
At Saturday's Special Congress, GAA president Jarlath Burns said some counties, at least one of them being from Munster, have admitted buyers’ remorse about some of the commercial deals they have stru...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#GAA addled by streams of risky: Croke Park to clampdown on unregulated streaming market at county level. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Ahead of Saturday’s vote, ranking Gaelic football’s new rules. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Football's revamp has delivered, but which rules have been best value?
The €300,000 spent on changing up Gaelic football has proved a good investment
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September 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Ahead of Saturday’s vote, ranking Gaelic football’s new rules. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Among other things, the NFL’s visit adds a ribbon board to Croke Park but stadium director Peter McKenna is against dynamic pricing in the #GAA www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
GAA learning lots from the NFL machine, says Croke Park director Peter McKenna
But GAA stadium and commercial director Peter McKenna is against introducing dynamic pricing for tickets
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September 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Among other things, the NFL’s visit adds a ribbon board to Croke Park but stadium director Peter McKenna is against dynamic pricing in the #GAA www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
“I’d go back in a heartbeat”: Cathal Barrett interview www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA #Tipperary
Cathal Barrett would go back to Tipp setup 'in a heartbeat'
The Holycross-Ballycahill defender was axed by Liam Cahill this year but remains a devoted Tipperary fan and goes to every game.
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September 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“I’d go back in a heartbeat”: Cathal Barrett interview www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA #Tipperary
It isn’t schmaltzy to say the NFL’s visit to Croke Park this weekend serves as a reminder of the #GAA’s uniqueness. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
John Fogarty: NFL visit a reminder of how different the GAA is
The visit of the Vikings and Steelers to Croke Park this week highlights what must be protected here.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
It isn’t schmaltzy to say the NFL’s visit to Croke Park this weekend serves as a reminder of the #GAA’s uniqueness. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Integration will happen but not shoehorned like this. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Integration will happen organically, not like this
Integration of the Gaelic games family will take patience and time and a whole lot of spending money
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September 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Integration will happen but not shoehorned like this. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
As football gets richer, hurling gets nicher. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
John Fogarty: Hurling gets nicher as football gets richer
The demise of the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals would have knock-on effects.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
As football gets richer, hurling gets nicher. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
The clock/hooter has its pluses but it is more trouble than it’s worth. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Clock/hooter more trouble than its worth
Teething problems encountered by the clock/hooter system this year suggest there might be long-term issues.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The clock/hooter has its pluses but it is more trouble than it’s worth. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Cork hurling doesn’t need another style war. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
John Fogarty: Cork hurling doesn’t need another style war
After Pat Ryan's decision to step away from the job, the Rebel County faces a fork in the road.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Cork hurling doesn’t need another style war. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Who would have thought so many people cared so much about the Munster SFC? #GAA column:
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Who would have thought people cared so much about Munster SFC?
As Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Clare consult with the GPA, one wonders what will happen when the 2026 draw is due to take place in October
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August 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Who would have thought so many people cared so much about the Munster SFC? #GAA column:
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Good old umbrage fuelled Kerry and Tipperary. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
Fogarty Forum: Good old umbrage fuelled Kerry and Tipp
Jim Gavin’s intention was to make it the most exciting field sport in the world but GAA president Jarlath Burns was declaring it in his presentation of the Sam Maguire Cup on Sunday.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Good old umbrage fuelled Kerry and Tipperary. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
From one overnight trip all season to Liam Cahill’s half-time claim that Cork were right where they wanted them, some of the stories behind this incredible Tipperary success. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Tipp's seven steps to utopia
Everything a team does to reach All-Ireland glory will be scrutinised by the others counties aiming to replicate their success.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
From one overnight trip all season to Liam Cahill’s half-time claim that Cork were right where they wanted them, some of the stories behind this incredible Tipperary success. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
It’s a bittersweet week for the Fitzgerald family. Ger’s All-Ireland winning father Paddy and sister Gillian remember one of Cork’s most loved hurlers following his passing in March: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
'I intend to live with cancer and not die of it'. That was his mantra - Cork great Ger Fitzgerald remembered
Ger Fitzgerald won’t be far from thoughts this weekend. At the age of 60, Cork’s two-time All-Ireland SHC winner passed away on St Patrick’s Day, 37 years to the day after he featured on a Midleton te...
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July 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It’s a bittersweet week for the Fitzgerald family. Ger’s All-Ireland winning father Paddy and sister Gillian remember one of Cork’s most loved hurlers following his passing in March: www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
Cashel’s new princes: interview with club chairman Seán O’Donoghue about his son Oisín and nephew Eoghan Connolly www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
Cashel's King Cormacs new princes aiming to help Tipperary reclaim All-Ireland hurling throne
Sunday is the first All-Ireland senior final since 1991, when the Bonnars were in their pomp, that Cashel King Cormacs have had more than one representative on a Tipperary panel
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July 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Cashel’s new princes: interview with club chairman Seán O’Donoghue about his son Oisín and nephew Eoghan Connolly www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
You wouldn’t know it this week but it wasn’t all sweetness and light in the Cork-Tipperary rivalry. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Cork and Tipp's dirty dozen
Cork and Tipperary have not always been the best of enemies.
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July 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
You wouldn’t know it this week but it wasn’t all sweetness and light in the Cork-Tipperary rivalry. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Liam Cahill: 'If Kilkenny don’t win it on the field, they ain’t going to bring it to the boardroom'
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Liam Cahill: 'If Kilkenny don’t win it on the field, they ain’t going to bring it to the boardroom'
Cahill was in no doubt that the conclusion of the game wouldn't be brought into question by the Leinster champions despite the scoreline error, as was admitted by the GAA following the game
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July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Liam Cahill: 'If Kilkenny don’t win it on the field, they ain’t going to bring it to the boardroom'
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Phantom point was a bad case of group-think. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Hurling semi-final's phantom point a bad case of group-think
For that late denial of John Donnell's goalbound shot, Robert Doyle is the toast of Tipperary but, as has been pointed out, the saviour of the GAA too.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Phantom point was a bad case of group-think. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Jack O’Connor’s strong words were aimed at his former midfielder among others but for the Kerry people. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Jack O'Connor's cry was for Kerry pundits and people
After Kerry's victory over Armagh on Sunday, Jack O'Connor expressed his annoyance at how his side's chances had been written off within the county.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Jack O’Connor’s strong words were aimed at his former midfielder among others but for the Kerry people. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
The #GAA has to grasp the thorny rose that is amateurism but contracting managers is a step too far. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: Grasping the thorny rose that is amateurism in the GAA
A blind eye being turned to the payments to some inter-county and several club managers is one of the main ways in which the GAA is not living up to its amateur ethos.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The #GAA has to grasp the thorny rose that is amateurism but contracting managers is a step too far. Column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Ask the players who have been involved in penalty shootouts if they want replays. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Fogarty Forum: If players want replays, the GAA should bring them back
By not having a Munster SHC final replay, €1m was left on the table this year, but the money argument shouldn’t be the motivating factor for a second day.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ask the players who have been involved in penalty shootouts if they want replays. #GAA column: www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Cork players don’t look to blame others anymore. Interview with selector Donal O’Mahony www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA
Cork players don’t look to blame others anymore
Interview: Cork Selector Donal O'Mahony is full of belief that the recent 16-point loss to Limerick can be turned around in Saturday's Munster final. 'The players hold their own meetings, and take res...
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June 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Cork players don’t look to blame others anymore. Interview with selector Donal O’Mahony www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar... #GAA