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Joe Kernan

Frank McGlynn could win an Allstar and lift the Player of the Year award after a tremendous season

Our All-Stars should play inter-pro winners in an exhibition abroad

We may live in recessionary times but for leading GAA players global travel is still a perk.

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Joe Kernan: Casement showdown sure to be a fitting tribute to Michaela

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Joe Kernan: Casement showdown sure to be a fitting tribute to Michaela

Friday, 19 October 2012

With the Derry and Down football championship finals arranged for this weekend, it means that — barring draws — the destination of all Ulster county titles, apart from Donegal’s of course, will have been decided.
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Joe Kernan: Success built on hunger games

Friday, 12 October 2012

The pursuit of superb physical fitness, high-level conditioning and supreme pace are goals which are shared by coaches and trainers up and down the country.
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Joe Kernan: Brolly reserved his greatest display for a friend in real need

Friday, 12 October 2012

Joe Brolly is a past master at raising hackles. Rather than call a spade a spade, he would tend to refer to such an implement in even more colourful terms such is his passion, honesty and candour.
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Joe Kernan: Players right to have an exclusion zone

Friday, 28 September 2012

The GAA rightly prides itself on being a family-orientated organisation. If clubs are viewed as representing the heartbeat of the country’s biggest sporting body, then families are the very blood that runs through its veins.
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Joe Kernan: Let’s hope the hurling final replay can reach same standards

Friday, 28 September 2012

It is often claimed that hurling is the greatest field game in the world.
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GAA: Donegal resolve should see Sam back in the hills

Friday, 21 September 2012

When I was manager of the Crossmaglen Rangers team that were bidding for an All-Ireland club title, I well recall having a conversation with the legendary Mick O’Dwyer and asking him what quality did the side most need to take to the table to win.
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Joe Kernan: Slapping Pat Spillane not on, but it’s still Donegal for me

Friday, 14 September 2012

Former Kerry All-Ireland winner Pat Spillane has delivered quite a few verbal assaults since becoming a high-profile RTE gaelic football analyst.
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Joe Kernan: GAA stars pay tribute to Oisin McConville

Friday, 14 September 2012

When Oisin McConville was invited to the Canal Court Hotel in Newry for a meal on Saturday night, he little dreamt that he was embarking on one of the most memorable occasions of his life.
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Joe Kernan: Casement stadium plan a demonstration of great foresight

Friday, 7 September 2012

We may still be in the fierce grip of an uncompromising recession but this is not preventing the GAA from taking what I believe is a bold stride into the future.
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Joe Kernan: Dominance often a bridge too far, even for very best

Friday, 7 September 2012

Since 1989-90 only one team has succeeded in winning back to back All-Ireland senior football championship titles. While Cork were the side to reign supreme in those years, it was Kerry who were the last side to achieve this significant feat when they lifted the Sam Maguire Cup in 2006 and retained it in 2007.
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Joe Kernan: Donegal manager McGuinness' philosophy has caught thoughts of everyone

Friday, 31 August 2012

There is nothing like the arrival of a ‘new’ team in the concluding stages of the All Ireland Football Championship to give the competition added vibrancy, pageantry and colour.
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Joe Kernan: Time to get the Railway Cup series back on the right track

Friday, 31 August 2012

Quite often team selections cause fractious debate and controversy. But this week I must take issue with a selection of a different nature.
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Joe Kernan: Mind games part of the plan for Donegal

Friday, 24 August 2012

When Down blazed a trail for Ulster by winning back to back All Ireland titles in 1960 and ’61, they did so with a team of supremely gifted players, a manager who acted as a jack of all trades and the support of a county board for whom the Corinthian spirit was absolutely sacrosanct.
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Joe Kernan: Kilkenny set up final to have us purring

Friday, 24 August 2012

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. We are all familiar with this sporting adage which is applicable at various levels.
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Joe Kernan: Provincial glory still best route to All Ireland glory

Friday, 17 August 2012

Since the All Ireland football qualifiers were introduced into the fixtures calendar in 2001 they have offered hope and encouragement to teams who might otherwise have taken an early leave of the Championship.
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Joe Kernan: Sacrifices made by Olympians mirror GAA stars

Friday, 17 August 2012

It was an immensely satisfying experience to witness the ecstatic homecoming for our Olympic heroes and heroines.
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Joe Kernan: How Lady Luck has the power to boot all your meticulous planning into touch

Friday, 10 August 2012

Goals win matches. How often have we heard that said particularly in a Championship context?
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Joe Kernan: Tide turns as the new kids on block stamp authority

Friday, 10 August 2012

The balance of power has shifted significantly in gaelic football within the past two years. For the ten years up until 2010, Tyrone, Kerry and Armagh had been the dominant teams both in taking delivery of the All-Ireland title and in providing the blueprint for how the game should be played.
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Joe Kernan: Cheating play-actors dragging integrity of gaelic games through mud

Friday, 3 August 2012

The Football Review Committee has commenced its task of conducting an in-depth investigation into just how gaelic football is played right now.
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