John Fogarty

Dublin

Gaelic Games Correspondent at Irish Examiner

Irish Examiner GAA correspondent. Liverpool FC supporter. Enjoy spoiling good walks. Not the CCR JF. Personal views aired here, not the newspaper's.

Articles

Neighbouring Dublin clubs in competition to buy land

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

South Dublin GAA clubs Ballinteer St John’s and Kilmacud Crokes are among a number of sports organisations in a bidding battle for a 15-acre site. The parcel of land on the Ticknock Road in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains has been zoned for sports facilities subject to planning permission and both units have made offers for the property.
John Fogarty: Has the Munster championship hit its peak?

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

Between 2019 and this year, the total attendances at the Cheltenham Festival fell by almost 50,000, from 266,779 to 218,839 (18%). They hit a high of 280,627 in 2022 but that figure was largely due to pent-up anticipation after the pandemic. Having said that, the drop to 240,603 in ’23 and constant decline ever since owes to a series of associated cost increases like accommodation and food and drink but admission too.
GAA will monitor and consider amendment to team registration protocols

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

The GAA may consider amending its championship team registration protocols if more counties feel they are too strict. On Sunday, Dublin manager Dessie Farrell said the regulation isn’t fit for purpose and revealed he had asked the county board to make representations to Croke Park about changing it.
Insipid Dublin labour to get out of the Garden

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

On the front of the match programme and in the half-time presentation, Mick OâDwyerâs presence was felt in Aughrim. His Wicklow selectors Arthur French and Kevin OâBrien, as well as many of his charges during his glowing five seasons with the county, were presented to the crowd on a sentimental day for the hosts. The can-do philosophy preached by the Kerry great spread to the current players. As OâDwyer was being remembered, they were facing into a gale four points down.
Dessie Farrell: GAA's team registration protocol 'is not fit for purpose'

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

Dessie Farrell says the GAAâs team registration protocol "isnât fit for purposeâ after he was forced to name a reduced Dublin squad for their Leinster quarter-final against Wicklow. After going with a group of 24 players to Aughrim instead of the regular 26, the manager has requested the county board propose a change to the championship code to Croke Park. The regulation insists teams must release their match-day panel to the GAA by 9am on the Thursday before the game.
Wicklow bring the fight but eventually fall short of Dublin

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

Led admirably by captain Dean Healy, Wicklow gave a fine account of themselves as they went down as expected to Dublin in this Leinster SFC quarter-final in Echelon Park on Sunday afternoon. Aughrim was abuzz for this game but when the visitors were four points up at the interval having faced the wind an avalanche of Dublin scores were expected. Yet they never really came.
Ciarán Brady: 'New rules are bringing back that bit of honesty to the game'

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

Cavan’s Ciarán Brady believes the new rules have reintroduced honesty to Gaelic football. Ahead of Sunday’s Ulster quarter-final against Tyrone, defender Brady says there is no longer safety in numbers and there is more of an emphasis on the art of being able to defend one-on-one. “There's more space,” he says. “Attacks are normally ending with a shot. That's one stat that's hugely different. Most attacks, teams are getting between 30 and 40 attacks.
Weekend previews: Can Antrim make home advantage count?

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

They may have swapped places between Division 2 and 3 but the visitors’s exposure to better teams in the higher octet almost negates the home advantage Kildare possess. They were brutally unlucky at times in Division 2 and yet because they have been so long without a win there has to be some baggage here. Don’t rule out extra-time but Kildare, stinging from that Division 3 final loss, may just edge it. : Kildare.
TJ Reid: 'At 37, It's great that Derek still has trust and the belief in me'

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

From what he considers the “longest winter I’ve ever put in”, TJ Reid has emerged for his 19th senior season with Kilkenny. Last year was the first since 2017 that Ballyhale Shamrocks failed to make the senior county final. The last time the club didn’t make the semi-finals was Reid’s debut season in 2004 when he lined out in goal as a 16-year-old. Without hurling for so long, even at the age of 37, absence made the heart grow fonder.
Gaelic football 'not fit for purpose' says Wicklow skipper Healy

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty

Wicklow captain Dean Healy says Gaelic football as a product is ânot fit for purposeâ. While the county may be abuzz with anticipation ahead of Dublin coming to Aughrim for Sundayâs Leinster SFC quarter-final, veteran Healy sees difficulties for the game at club level. He accepts the experimental rules have made a change for the better but believes it is losing out to rugby and soccer.