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Joe Kernan

A fitting finale to campaign

The pendulum has been swinging in different directions in the Ulster Club Football Championship to date.
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Joe Kernan: Patience is key word

Inside Joe Kernan

Joe Kernan: Patience is key word

Thursday, 19 November 2009

For any county team manager, the close season is nothing more than the calm before the storm.
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Joe Kernan: Get real, player power is here to stay

Thursday, 12 November 2009

The most precious asset which the GAA possesses is undoubtedly its players. The Association may boast massive stadia, lucrative sponsorship and broadcasting rights deals, the unstinting loyalty of countless thousands of followers and structures that are the envy of many other sports but ultimately the players represent its very heartbeat.
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Joe Kernan: Stand up and hail the Ulstermen

Thursday, 12 November 2009

When Ulster and All Ireland Championship games are staged, the level of intensity can be overwhelming. Players are invariably prepared to put their bodies on the line, absorb huge hits and on occasions stretch the elasticity of the rules in a bid to pound the opposition into submission.
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Joe Kernan: Ulster title still means heck of a lot

Thursday, 5 November 2009

It's not all sweetness and light as the curtain begins to come down on the GAA’s elaborate programme of 125th Anniversary celebrations.
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Joe Kernan: Inter-pro final in London a boost for the game in England

Thursday, 5 November 2009

I know it’s just coincidence given the imminent inter-pro football final in London but just last week I watched a BBC documentary which explored the growing interest in gaelic football in schools in England.
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Joe Kernan: My Rangers are six of the best

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Statistics sometimes do not always reveal the total narrative in relation to a match or other event under the GAA banner.
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Joe Kernan: High time to consider supporters

Thursday, 29 October 2009

There would appear to be no real indication that the economic downturn is nearing an end and that improved conditions are on the horizon.
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Joe Kernan: Kilcoo in for a rare treat now

Thursday, 22 October 2009

It is often claimed by the Croke Park authorities that the club is the very heartbeat of the GAA. Now and again, though, decisions are taken in relation to the staging of fixtures — or indeed the postponement of fixtures — that would tend to contradict this philosophy.
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Joe Kernan: Representing Ulster always an honour to cherish

Thursday, 22 October 2009

I have had the great honour of managing teams like Crossmaglen Rangers and Armagh who have claimed All Ireland Club and county titles.
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Joe Kernan: A winter break? Just give it a rest

Thursday, 15 October 2009

There are very few sports across the globe I know of which close down completely at the top level for two months.
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Joe Kernan: An experiment which just doesn’t bear repeating this time

Thursday, 15 October 2009

The Experimental Rules certainly occasioned debate, confusion and not a little controversy when they were in vogue in the National League earlier this year.
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Joe Kernan: Things looking up for Ulster counties

Thursday, 8 October 2009

There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth lately and all because the Sam Maguire Cup did not come to Ulster this year.
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Joe Kernan: County managers are all set to go out clubbing

Thursday, 1 October 2009

The All Ireland Football Championship may be done and dusted but this does not mean that county team bosses can sit back and put their feet up. Far from it, indeed.
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Joe Kernan: Answered Ireland’s call and dream came true

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Sport, like life itself, can be full of ironies.
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Joe Kernan: Galway boss, but I am still thinking of Armagh

Thursday, 17 September 2009

An All Ireland Minor triumph for Armagh, a memorable Cork v Kerry battle for the Sam Maguire Cup, a winning baptism with Galway and success for Ulster in the Inter-provincial football championship.
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Joe Kernan: Sam’s leaving Ulster but still been a great season

Thursday, 10 September 2009

At the outset of the All Ireland Championship season in both football and hurling, optimism prevailed that we would enjoy a summer of high-octane matches in both codes, a feast of thrilling individual performances and the odd surprise lobbed in for good measure.
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Joe Kernan: Muhammad Ali played his part in Armagh ‘Sam’ triumph

Thursday, 3 September 2009

ON the morning of the 2002 All Ireland football final, each member of the Armagh squad discovered on waking up in their west Dublin hotel that a sheet of headed notepaper containing a message had been pushed under their room door during the night.
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