David Gough
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Seán Moran: Fallout from Tyrone final celebrations will concern GAA
- Gaelic Games
- September 23, 2020, 06:45
It was one of the anti-apartheid movement’s most resonant slogans: no normal sport in an abnormal society. How could it proceed when all of the commun(...)

Referee David Gough returns to action in Meath
- Gaelic Games
- September 2, 2020, 06:00
It was at the time viewed as one of the least hopeful signs of any intercounty activity for the rest of 2020 in the face of Covid-19: David Gough, ref(...)

Intercounty refs urged not to rush decisions over GAA return to play
- Gaelic Games
- July 3, 2020, 06:00
Some intercounty referees have been expressing concerns about the GAA’s return to play. Donal Smyth, the association’s National Match Officials Manage(...)

GAA Covid-19 adviser describes risks of return to play as ‘very, very low’
- Gaelic Games
- June 29, 2020, 15:48
A member of the GAA’s Covid Advisory Group has described the risks involved in the return to play as “very, very low”. Professor Mary Horgan, an expe(...)

My favourite sporting moment: 2011 All-Ireland football final
- Gaelic Football
- April 4, 2020, 13:00
Bear with me a moment as I start off by digressing a little. It is five years since Bryan Cullen has lifted the Sam Maguire Cup to end the drought and(...)

GAA officials and referees brace themselves as new rules kick in, and this time it's for real
- Gaelic Football
- January 24, 2020, 06:00
Donal Smyth, a former Meath All-Ireland goalkeeper, is in his first year as the GAA’s national match officials manager. He told Thursday’s football ru(...)

David Gough questions appropriateness of All-Ireland red card sanction
- Gaelic Games
- January 14, 2020, 05:00
All-Ireland football referee David Gough has questioned to what extent the sending-off of Jonny Cooper in last September’s drawn final was justified b(...)

Sporting Year roundtable: Our panel discuss the highs and lows of 2019
- Sport
- December 28, 2019, 06:00
And so this is 2019. And what have you done? Well, we’ve mostly gone to things, written about them and talked endless hours of guff on the back of th(...)

Referee David Gough unconvinced about viability of newly-introduced mark
- Gaelic Football
- December 3, 2019, 01:00
All-Ireland final referee David Gough is pessimistic about the prospects for the newly-introduced advance mark, which comes into force for 2020 having(...)

Kevin McStay: Plenty of scope for improving football as a spectacle
- Gaelic Football
- September 24, 2019, 06:00
My late father had a phrase that combined his love and admiration for the GAA with the frustration that it could sometimes cause him. He would sit the(...)