Kieran Donaghy
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TV View: Plenty of swashbuckling football, but where was the vintage rugby?
- Gaelic Games
- November 8, 2020, 21:15
“Swashbuckling football,” said All-Ireland winning manager Jim McGuinness as Dublin drew pretty, straight-line pictures on the turf in O’Moore Park. T(...)

Ireland look ‘a little bit French’ but Paris still remains a graveyard
- Rugby
- November 1, 2020, 19:26
A Six Nations decider on the last day of October, with a locked down Ronan O’Gara locked out of the Stade de France, forcing him out of Virgin Media’s(...)

Peter Canavan calls for increased county panels to deal with coronavirus cases
- Gaelic Games
- October 7, 2020, 16:55
With daily cases in the province among the highest in Europe, and Fermanagh the latest county to cease all GAA activity, the prospect of the Ulster fo(...)

Sky to extend its 2020 GAA coverage to all of its customers
- Gaelic Games
- October 7, 2020, 12:15
Sky television has announced it will make all of their live 2020 GAA championship fixtures available to free-to-air to all Sky customers on the Sky Sp(...)

Seán Moran: GAA rule on amateurism remains virtually meaningless
- Gaelic Games
- July 23, 2020, 16:47
The fuss over tuition fees for Dean Rock’s place-kicking academy has again focused attention on the GAA’s amateurism rules and the extent to which peo(...)

Roscommon footballers shave or dye to raise funds for hospice
- Gaelic Games
- April 16, 2020, 16:35
When the GAA season eventually does resume, the Roscommon senior footballers will be sporting some fairly interesting haircuts. The team are aiming to(...)

Finishers: How the evolution of substitutes has changed Gaelic football
- Gaelic Games
- April 11, 2020, 06:00
For something so obvious, it still came as a bit of a surprise. In early 2016, Dublin’s Kevin McManamon was being interviewed at a league launch event(...)

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(...)

Kieran Donaghy calls for GAA to shut down fans’ forums
- Gaelic Games
- February 19, 2020, 06:00
A year on from highlighting the impact of online abuse on sports people, and six months since the Gaelic Players Association took on the same baton, c(...)

Meath realising hope doesn’t spring eternal for promoted sides
- Gaelic Football
- February 8, 2020, 06:00
Two games in and already Meath are looking like plankton in Division One. Only London have scored less than them across the four leagues. Kerry have a(...)