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Leave it to Mr O'Brien? | Saturday, May 17, 2008

Drugs - what chances of a GAA player being caught?

What are the chances of an intercounty player being caught if he decides to take performanceenhancing drugs? Calculated on odds, it’s 15/1. We’ll get to that later.  more >

GAA pays a high price for not educating its young people

There’s something amiss in the world of sport when stories appear on the front of newspapers rather than on the back.  more >

A famous Connacht GAA picture

There’s a picture on page seven of last week’s U21 Connacht final programme that is one of the most significant photographs ever taken in Connacht GAA.  more >

Headbutts and off the ball punches – the Dubs are back

Some will say that I have a chip on my shoulder about the Dubs. Those people would be right. The Dubs have given me a pain in the rear since I was a child. 1983 and all that.  more >

A record hammering that club delegates voted for

Picture this a young Armagh fan jumps in front of a Roscommon supporter coming out of the match in Crossmaglen last Sunday week and basically laughs in his face. Picture this too an Armagh man asks me coming out of the game, “is that your best team?”  more >

Who’d like to see a professional boxing bout at Dr. Hyde Park?

It will be very quiet around Four Roads on Saturday night. Some of the area’s characters will not be making an appearance in the local.  more >

Clubs are driving fixtures’ debate about exam-tied players

A few weeks ago, Eugene McGee wrote in his column in the Irish Independent how a county minor player was asked to attend a training session the night before he started his Leaving Cert exams. He didn’t turn up for training. Later that night he received a text message from the county manager to say that he had been dropped off the panel.  more >

Decreasing queues to manage the club team

At the time of writing, one club in Roscommon has asked 22 people if they would be interested in taking over its senior football team for the coming year.  more >

The GAA ‘appearance fee’ has gone into overdrive

When I lived in the Midlands, a member of the Offaly senior hurling panel lived a couple of doors down from me.  more >

Regular official-bashing is becoming all too acceptable

“That county board is an awful shower.” “Trust the FAI to make a bags of things.” “If that fool wasn’t running the show, things would be a lot better.”  more >



 

 

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